Apple uses consumer psychology to make it feel like the "cool" brand, which the DOJ says created a "social stigma" toward non-iPhone users.
  • Cloudless ☼@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    212·
    9 months ago

    Can’t they focus on something more substancial instead of vague psychological state/perception of the products?

    Apple started the Mac vs PC ads long time ago to portrait Mac users as cool. I don’t have a problem with that even though I don’t use any Apple products myself.

  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2625·
    9 months ago

    🙄 yeah everyone just was tricked and didn’t find it an easy way to use a phone.

    You people are insufferable. Everything that I wouldn’t buy is the effect of the corpos! This green and blue bubble bullshit is so inconsequential and yet here it is day after day with the same shit. Apple somehow cheated their easy to popularity, and yeah it was totally just the color of SMS.

    • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      9 months ago

      I mostly agree but the cultural force behind it is a significant part of why it’s so popular and that force is classist. “You’re a poor if you don’t have an iPhone and I don’t associate with poors”

      Both sides of the “debate” have people baselessly hating the “opposition” since the start but for the record, the green bubble shit was created by iPhone users on their high horses - not Android users.

      My family is 60% android, 40% iPhone, and 100% unphased by anyone’s choice in phones. Anyone who gives a shit about what other people use is a pocket watcher. Mind your damn business.

  • pound_heap@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    I’m not sure how viable this is for the court case… but totally agree with sentiment.

    Maybe in US it is different with very available loans and phone plans that include top of the line iPhones, but in the country I grew up having iPhone was a big thing. Especially when you are teenager or in your 20s. It was a symbol of wealth.

    My friend owns a small business in that country and he says that he had to buy an iPhone. His partners were looking down at him because he had a Samsung phone.

    I guess it’s not like that nowadays, as Samsung has phones that cost the same or even more…

    • Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      iPhones don’t have the same superiority in the US anymore, at least not in my experience. Maybe in the early 2010s when they were new and everyone wanted an iPhone, but nobody really gives a shit what phone you have here anymore.

      They’re also easily accessible to most people now because cell providers will lease you a phone for some added cost to your phone plan each month, so you can get a $1,000+ phone for $20-30 extra per month which isn’t hard for many people.