I’m too far down the apple rabbit hole I think, though I did build a PC recently which feels like a very android move.
An interesting question for me is: would u rather date an iPhone person or android person? And I’d say right now, android! Feels like the slacker misfit weirdo phone. Yea those ppl might be nuts but they might also be the coolest.
I think the history of personal computers is another reason for people's iPhone/android preferences. The first Macintosh computer came out in 1984; it had a mouse and a graphical user interface which was originally developed by the XEROX corporation. All other personal computers had to use DOS -- Disk Operating System used by IBM machines, which meant that one had to use a Command Prompt and know some programming languages, mostly BASIC. Microsoft released its first Windows version in 1985, but it took 10 years until Windows 95 that Microsoft caught up with Apple's functionality. By that time, all the cool kids and computer nerds and cutting-edge innovators -- artists, writers, etc. -- had firmly sided with Apple. When the company became more proprietary but didn't really have many advantages compared to PCs, people were sold on the name and reputation without examining whether this was still deserved. And for some, the fact that the higher price signals "I can afford it" is impotant. This seems to confirm your conclusion about iPhone etc. users being more "average"... I know all this from a good friend who is a software developer and who taught me to design websites from scratch, with my own code, between 2005 - 2010. He sold the shirt off his back to buy a Mackintosh in 1984 and LOVED the company for many years -- until there was too much wrong with it. Sorry this is so long! 😉
At one time, I had a Macbook and an iPhone. I liked them, but they both died and I don't have the money to replace them. PCs and Android work just fine. I refuse to waste money on Apple products.
Brilliant, Anne! The thing that boggles my mind is how deeply we identify with our commodities. It makes sense to spend crazy $$ on a phone if it's also a statement of your identity. I'm totally an Apple person--like all the way-- and, actually, 99% of my friends are Apple people too. So now I'm thinking I need to diversify my friend group! It does feel like the distinction between Apple and Android people is really profound, at the same time that that's obviously a ridiculous statement. And it's funny to me that Apple originally marketed itself as the brand of "original thinkers"...but now all of us Apple people are just lemmings.
Let's forget phones and go back to snail mail --that would be truly original :)
I transitioned from a Motorola RZR to the first iPhone and never went back. A friend asked me to text a photo he’d taken and after about 10 minutes with no success, I realized I made the right choice. I notice all the free-thinking android users commenting, meanwhile, iPhone users have very easily pivoted to another app. They already know who’s cooler. 🤷🏾♀️
We’re all in the matrix, Apple users just have better outfits or whatever.
It's clear that Android users are the more spiritually evolved and awakened people, strong enough to refuse to drink the Kool-Aid, haha. Put that in your iphone and smoke it!
I was an Apple person well before it was cool, back in the day when Macs and PCs couldn't communicate. Then Apple became trendy, and expensive, and I bailed. I use a MacBook for work, but I'm perfectly happy using something else at home. Also, I like my Android phone.
I was the first in Wally's and my marriage to get a cellphone and I got a Droid because Sergei Brin was an engineer and Steve Jobs was a designer. And I prefer the road less traveled.
Such a great post! I hitched my wagon to the Apple train years ago - my photographer husband has always used Apple tech for his work, and it just makes things more streamlined for us if our tech is from the same stable. And if he upgrades his phone... well, I inherit the old one. It's just for convenience....... although I'm firmly locked into Apple, so how convenient IS that really...?! 🤔
Android for me. Last time I walked into an Apple store they asked if I had made an appointment to purchase something. Are you kidding me! They weren't even that busy.
I strongly urge you to read the iconic 1996 essay by Umberto Eco on the Mac and DOS operating systems, which rings true to this day:
http://www.simongrant.org/web/eco.html
I’m too far down the apple rabbit hole I think, though I did build a PC recently which feels like a very android move.
An interesting question for me is: would u rather date an iPhone person or android person? And I’d say right now, android! Feels like the slacker misfit weirdo phone. Yea those ppl might be nuts but they might also be the coolest.
Also did u read about the kids using flip phones? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/style/teens-social-media.amp.html
I’m gonna get one I think
I think the history of personal computers is another reason for people's iPhone/android preferences. The first Macintosh computer came out in 1984; it had a mouse and a graphical user interface which was originally developed by the XEROX corporation. All other personal computers had to use DOS -- Disk Operating System used by IBM machines, which meant that one had to use a Command Prompt and know some programming languages, mostly BASIC. Microsoft released its first Windows version in 1985, but it took 10 years until Windows 95 that Microsoft caught up with Apple's functionality. By that time, all the cool kids and computer nerds and cutting-edge innovators -- artists, writers, etc. -- had firmly sided with Apple. When the company became more proprietary but didn't really have many advantages compared to PCs, people were sold on the name and reputation without examining whether this was still deserved. And for some, the fact that the higher price signals "I can afford it" is impotant. This seems to confirm your conclusion about iPhone etc. users being more "average"... I know all this from a good friend who is a software developer and who taught me to design websites from scratch, with my own code, between 2005 - 2010. He sold the shirt off his back to buy a Mackintosh in 1984 and LOVED the company for many years -- until there was too much wrong with it. Sorry this is so long! 😉
At one time, I had a Macbook and an iPhone. I liked them, but they both died and I don't have the money to replace them. PCs and Android work just fine. I refuse to waste money on Apple products.
The Apple users I encounter tend to be... tedious about their tech. Unimpressed.
"...hogging all the cheese dip and pissing in the punch." 🤣😂 I am easily amused and that is hysterical!!
Brilliant, Anne! The thing that boggles my mind is how deeply we identify with our commodities. It makes sense to spend crazy $$ on a phone if it's also a statement of your identity. I'm totally an Apple person--like all the way-- and, actually, 99% of my friends are Apple people too. So now I'm thinking I need to diversify my friend group! It does feel like the distinction between Apple and Android people is really profound, at the same time that that's obviously a ridiculous statement. And it's funny to me that Apple originally marketed itself as the brand of "original thinkers"...but now all of us Apple people are just lemmings.
Let's forget phones and go back to snail mail --that would be truly original :)
I transitioned from a Motorola RZR to the first iPhone and never went back. A friend asked me to text a photo he’d taken and after about 10 minutes with no success, I realized I made the right choice. I notice all the free-thinking android users commenting, meanwhile, iPhone users have very easily pivoted to another app. They already know who’s cooler. 🤷🏾♀️
We’re all in the matrix, Apple users just have better outfits or whatever.
It's clear that Android users are the more spiritually evolved and awakened people, strong enough to refuse to drink the Kool-Aid, haha. Put that in your iphone and smoke it!
I was an Apple person well before it was cool, back in the day when Macs and PCs couldn't communicate. Then Apple became trendy, and expensive, and I bailed. I use a MacBook for work, but I'm perfectly happy using something else at home. Also, I like my Android phone.
Do iPhones dream of electric sheep?
"If the majority of Americans 'think different', society will collapse"
Thank God, someone finally said it
I was the first in Wally's and my marriage to get a cellphone and I got a Droid because Sergei Brin was an engineer and Steve Jobs was a designer. And I prefer the road less traveled.
When you walk into an Apple store, it's hard not to notice that a lot of the guys working there are schlubs.
BTW, Anne, did your doorman ever come back to work? I posted back then that he wouldn't and that he was going to go for the unemployment insurance.
Such a great post! I hitched my wagon to the Apple train years ago - my photographer husband has always used Apple tech for his work, and it just makes things more streamlined for us if our tech is from the same stable. And if he upgrades his phone... well, I inherit the old one. It's just for convenience....... although I'm firmly locked into Apple, so how convenient IS that really...?! 🤔
Android for me. Last time I walked into an Apple store they asked if I had made an appointment to purchase something. Are you kidding me! They weren't even that busy.