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I'm a woman in the U.S. and I've never had a friend ditch a guy for using a different phone than them.
This is either fake, limited to the younger generation, infrequent enough that I've never encountered it, or regional
I know men who have a hard time getting dates, but phone choice has never been brought up as to why they're rejected
(Frankly, if someone rejects anyone for what phone they are using, the rejecting-party's clearly not worth pursuing)
Everything on the internet is rage bait.
Naw this is just apple marketing doing it's thing.
I think it's a younger demographic thing. I know my oldest niece for sure buys and uses only things that have a status symbol that is approved by other high school students. Basically an iPhone in one hand and a Starbucks cup in the other is peak fashion.
Exactly. I would do the opposite, let them see your phone early and if they reject you because of it then you dodged that bullet.
This is, in fact, zoomer bullshit.
Actually I encounter this routinely as a work issue. My work requires a lot of co-ordination of labor via cellphone and some of the basic features Apple has - regular old group messages for instance don't show me, an android user, if a text is part of a group message and doesn't allow me control over the response. Depending on my software update it either sends to everyone who was tagged in the original message or no one but the original recipient but I won't know until I send it. That means any message I send back leaves me open to communication errors.
Also a whole bunch of stuff is proprietary, facetime, airdrop and so on meaning the ease of sharing information to me because of my hardware can be a factor in whether I get hired or not. This is actually purposefully done by Apple, they create convenience only between their users so it creates social pressure by causing android users to be routine social nuisances. They basically cause all these little micro fractures of actual peer to peer relationships on purpose to sneakily force android users to give up and buy their shit or else people have to be mindful of an android users limitations the same way you might have to adapt your behaviour to someone's disability or allergy... By taking on the cognitive work of understanding and adapting to someone else's limitations.
If you've ever seen someone throw a fit because they had to pick a restaurant with a gluten free option you know certain people aren't great at doing anything that inconveniences them even a little.