I guess this is based on the idea that iPhones are expensive or exclusive? Or rather, some people think that iPhone owners think they’re elite for having what is actually the most common phone in the US? They haven’t been the most expensive phones on the market for at least 7 years.
I think that’s the real reason. It’s been 10 years since I saw anyone think they’re special because they have an iPhone but still run into this concept that iPhone users think they’re elite. Perhaps that’s true for some tiny percentage of apple fanatics, but for the average person, it’s just the phone they prefer or the phone they have.
I’ve been to bars and begged them humbly to help me charge my phone and never once have I thought “IPHONE, yeah! You heard me!”
Talking with younger family members, the iPhone elitism mentally is still alive and well in middle/high school. There’s a very good chance you simply aged out of of where people give a shit
The elitism is also alive whenever someone refers to their phone as an iphone.
They are purposely spelling out the brand of their phone, as if that matters somehow.
You got the same with Samsung users. They refer to their phone as a Samsung.
It is a phone, or a smartphone. Giving free advertisement to a giant corporation will not grant you anything other than the contempt of those around you as it makes someone seem like a douche.
Same with ipads, call them tablets.
Note to phone users of all makes, I really couldn’t give a fuck what colour your chat bubble is.
If you have a bit of technical know-how you can set up a BlueBubbles server to get iMessage on android.
Americans flex about the weirdest things.
The most common truck, the most common phone, food from the most ubiquitous fast food joint, having merch from the most popular artists and sports teams.
Those are their biggest flexs.
Yeah buddy, great flex with your Taylor swift hoodie, Starbucks frap, iPhone 12 in your Ford F-150.
Its especially confusing because for many, many years, and even still today, American’s are pushed to be UNIQUE and whenever anyone is UNIQUE then people criticize them for enjoying or doing things outside whatever is ubiquitous for whatever thing. Its ridiculous honestly.
I used to find it extremely confusing. I think my mistake was, growing up I adopted the values our society says they care about… turns out, our values aren’t actually freedom, or a fair society, or inventing/creating things (unless a megacorp does it)
It’s all doublespeak - every time a politician expresses a value, their actions are probably about to show the opposite
For example, by loudly insisting we’re the land of the free we don’t consider the fact we have by far the largest slave population in the world. You can literally rent slave labor, bill the state to house them, and hand them a bill for their living costs when they get parole…
I could rant about this all day, it’s insanity when you start to look at this all up close
Is this the new Godwin’s law? That every thread will culminate in someone bringing up school shootings for no fucking reason?
