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What's with redditors pretending to be old people 5 decades early. People still care plenty about fashion in their 30s ya weirdo
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Normies must die
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Because they don't fit in with their actual peers
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Anyone who cares about their phone is a huge nerd and should be avoided or bullied
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I bought a $150 samsung piece of shit. It calls and makes texts, it's almost perfect. I actually just found my old blackberry with the slide keyboard today and it felt really good in my hands again. I seriously might switch back,
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I haven't paid over $200 for a phone in years. Just find your favorite previous generation refurbished on ebay, usually including a 1 year warranty. They're great since I touch grass enough to break them.
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I paid around $350 AUD for this back when they were current, ironically because I actually hate phones and I was trying to buy one which would last close to forever.
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I bought a shitty Nokia brick phone that can do nothing but call and slowly text. My life has never been better
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Those Huawei $100 phones run as good as a mid range phone from 3 years ago honestly. They're old technology and you don't need that much computing power to fry your zoomer brain on tiktoks and porn.
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No ty chinese spy garbage
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Imagine being obsessed with a tech brand
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Applecels are prime examples of stockholm syndrome. They don't even know why they think their phone is superior other than yell "haha poors". Neighbors don't have notification icons in 2022 and still call android phones shit for some reason. All your phone is an app launcher that sometimes works as a phone.
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Its just imessage and facetime tbh. I would switch if i didnt frick up group chats.
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The actual reason is because they're all too poor
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But wait, there's more!
@Transgender_spez
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That second guy is a total psycho lol
Oh wait it is the same guy lmao
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I have both and theyre equally shit, so paying more for an iphone is r-slurred unless your company is paying for it, in which case who cares?
Actually the iphone is slightly worse because the battery is fricking trash
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iPhones aren't a status symbol anymore. Even the poorest of poors have them now because poors would rather buy a used iphone than a used android phone.
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I could save up for one if I wanted it. I just feel that in general, Apple's products are a lot more about being status symbols, than being actually useful.
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Whenever I try to use an iPhone it makes me want to kill myself
Everything is so fricking slow and buried under 50 menus and requires weird esoteric gestures so you have to randomly swipe the screen like an r-slur until the right one comes up
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Imagine not being able to use a phone that has been UX’ed out of the butt, so much so that there’s videos of monkey’s using them just fine.
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Samsung S10+ is peak smartphone. Everything after is marginally better and actually worse and in some categories.
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I cracked the screen and back on my S10+ so I upgraded to an S21+ and it's a worse phone, no headphone jack or SD card slot.
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Ive had my screen replaced twice. Each time it broke I checked the market and none were worth the trouble. S10+ is still super fast and has tons of storage and still feels brand new.
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Nah. S7 or 8. Whichever had removable batteries
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I think the last one was the s6 or s7. The S8+ onwards are ip68 so no removable battery.
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Though having read some of their answers, I unfortunately have to concur with the gentleman still seething about iTunes years after its introduction. Never forget indeed.
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Cheaper and I can pirate shit on android.
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Snapshots:
undelete.pullpush.io
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
ghostarchive.org (click to archive)
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@Aevann discuss
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Zoomers get bullied for being a green bubble which is why they want applel and then they get comfy with the eco system for life
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Android software kept bugging out for me so I tried Google's competition. iPhone is as fast as the day I bought it. Would recommend
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