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Re:AirPods Are Becoming a Platform? by simonh on Thursday December 26, 2019 @04:37AM (#21882793)
I won’t have any truck with the “Apple stuff is just about fashion, it’s the only reason people buy them”. BS, that just clearly not the case.

But it also seems incontrovertible to me that Apple gear is a status symbol. Some people really do buy them for the fashion angle, including the phones. One being true doesn’t preclude the other.

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Re:AirPods Are Becoming a Platform? by scarface74 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @08:44AM (#21883706)
How is something a “status symbol” when close to 50% of the people in the US have one?

People have been saying that Apple devices are a status symbol since the iPod was introduced in 2001.

You can even by AirPods via installments with T-mobile. Anyone can afford them.

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