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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:17:19 JST kaia
   > TIL 87 percent of teens in the USA have an iPhone, while 88 percent expect an iPhone to be their next phone according to a survey from investment firm Piper Sandler.
   
   how terrifying
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:22:19 JST Sexy Moon

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     @kaia I don't believe the stat tbh
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     Piggo :verified_horse: (piggo@piggo.space)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:22:26 JST Piggo :verified_horse:

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     @kaia this explains why android is so bad, they have no domestic market
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:23:18 JST kaia

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     @Moon I mean if you can't get dates with Android, the preeminent desire for teens will be for an iPhone :angry_cirno: what a shitty world we live in
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:27:27 JST Sexy Moon

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     @kaia that part I actually believe, that people will discriminate based on if you have an iphone. probably nobody worth dating though. maybe other things.
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:28:39 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @Moon @kaia people prefer rolex to casio more news at 11
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     Jason123santa :pine64: (jason123santa@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:55:57 JST Jason123santa :pine64:

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     @kaia It's totally true. I am one of the only people I know that has an android phone out of everyone I know. Its a few people that have a different phone. Then mostly older people have android phones. I know someone who had an android phone since the galaxy SII days.
     Though with the younger generation its getting worse with the iphones. Older people don't care as much.
     It truly sucks but I don't care much

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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 23:24:30 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @amerika @Moon @kaia would you hire someone that demanded to wear pajamas to the job interview?
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     ≠ ≠ ≠ (amerika@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 23:24:31 JST ≠ ≠ ≠

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     @romin @Moon @kaia
     
     Discrimination goes both ways. Would you want to date/court someone who demanded you had an iPhone or Rolex?
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 23:54:31 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @amerika @Moon @kaia it was just an an extreme example to illustrate that everyone discriminates on what now may be seen as arbitrary social nonsense (clothes, watches, appearance, etc), what happens is that phones are too new and people still act shocked at the notion of them being used as status symbols
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     ≠ ≠ ≠ (amerika@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 23:54:32 JST ≠ ≠ ≠

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     @romin @Moon @kaia
     
     Depends on whether they could do the job well.
     
     I am sort of old school California agnostic on a lot of things. If they are the right person to do the job well, almost everything else is not as important.
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     ≠ ≠ ≠ (amerika@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 00:03:21 JST ≠ ≠ ≠

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     @romin @Moon @kaia
     
     Maybe that is part of it, but we are also seeing a shift where many luxury brands are getting identified with the 'hood.
     
     For example, people switched to Tesla from Mercedes as their ideal of a luxury car.
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 00:03:21 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @amerika @Moon @kaia
     >For example, people switched to Tesla from Mercedes as their ideal of a luxury car.
     just the new rich trying to set their own trends, always happens
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 00:11:38 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @amerika @Moon @kaia while iph*nes are retard-proof, the main drive behind the apple obsession is the cult of brand and the price tag
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     ≠ ≠ ≠ (amerika@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 00:11:39 JST ≠ ≠ ≠

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     @romin @Moon @kaia
     
     Old brands tend to move from being elite to being commonplace over time.
     
     That ruins their utility as signaling.
     
     As much as I hate Apple (left the cult in '87) part of it also has to deal with iPhones being easy to use.
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     ≠ ≠ ≠ (amerika@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 00:21:07 JST ≠ ≠ ≠

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     @romin @Moon @kaia
     
     Perhaps. I trust Tom Wolfe would have had something insightful to say here.
     
     It seems to me that "retard-proof" is a synonym for "designed for retards."
     
     However, I like a few things about Apple... the works-out-of-the-box, the aesthetics, the idea of joy in using devices.
     
     Even if I hate Apple and know that Steve Jobs, like Chuck Schuldiner, actually died of AIDS.
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