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Comment by collinc777 | Hacker News Reader

In the US, having an Android is one of the biggest social status negative signals I can think of.

I used to have an android and when I'd meet people the primary thing they'd remember about me was that I had an android. Their blinders were up after they had that information.

I think phones like the Galaxy line might be better than iPhones, but the experience of owning an iPhone far exceeds owning a Galaxy.

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My own extended family is literally a cult about this.

But, I’m back to iPhone because I actually need my phone portion to work. Went through 3 androids with constant call issues.

Who cares if there’s a cult. The products are objectively worse if you need to make important phone calls. Couldn’t care about anything else even a tenth as much.

From experience, the type of people who judge you on that aren't the ones worth dealing with.

A +1 to Android for helping us filter out all the wankers we don't want to hang out with.

So wait, we're basing purchases now on what others think of them and not our own metrics?

I'm not saying you're wrong, but this is absolutely wild to me. We must live in very different places with a very different group of cohorts.

I think this varies by groups of people and is very similar to everyone in the group having Nike shoes. It's a marketing ploy from Apple.

Apple really contributed to this with the non-iMessage "green bubble."

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