> iPhones have become the default smartphone, and is a status symbol compared to Android.
It does not function as a status symbol in the west. It's not a big deal to get one if you really want to and live in a developed country. People in asian countries making 1/8th of their american counterparts can afford iPhones. Someone making minimum wage in Germany can buy one using about 3-4 months worth of saved disposable income. In the states they'll throw one after you on credit without looking at you twice. It's only a status symbol if you want to set yourself apart from someone living in Zimbabwe... oh wait they also have lots of iPhone users. From who exactly? Afghanis?
Honestly if the bar for status symbol's is that low, you should sooner consider excercise and good dietary habits. These days in many western counties that will do many orders of magnitude more for how people perceive you and your dating life. Certainly more than what flavour of annoying chiming piece of shit you bought.
Unfortunately for us, logic isn't the arbiter of social behaviour.
Heres some examples
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1nt7czg/do_iphone_...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/14rhes2/friends_in...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Nicegirls/comments/1ja3iy4/green_bu...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/OnlineDating/comments/17xrue5/are_y...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/datingoverthirty/comments/b6w9iu/oh...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/f1i3q8/this_is_why_...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/rz4wlp/why_apples_...
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One more:
https://mashable.com/article/iphone-users-think-less-of-andr...
I might have a bridge to sell you.
What says a lot is that you had to dredge up some up to 7 years old posts on reddit, on which replies still overwhelmingly call the idea silly. This smells like an attempt to manufacture consent, but it'd be pretty low effort for even that.
As a rule, if something sounds stupid to you, it will probably be just as silly to most people you should give a damn about. Certainly don't let some posts that look like the lowest-effort FUD imaginable tell you what other people think.
I may have something to teach you about indicators, averages, and population samples/biases.
We're not debating majority opinion here. Just that people exist who have that bias / perception and what it leads to.
People exist that judge and exclude based on if you have have an Android.
Im sure the reverse exits too.
Im also sure the former is more common than the later.
But I have no idea how large that population is.
Just like Im not in that population.