$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles from Cash

Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by fragmede on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:49PM (#29783717)

BMWs are better "driving machines" than Honda Civics. They're still a luxury car and status symbols. Things can be two things at once. Just as the Honda Civic will get you from point A to point B just fine, there's a phone less than half the price of a new iPhone 13 pro will do what smartphones need to do these days. You just look like old-fashioned and not very "with it" if you do.

Guess how well that phone sells?

Not very well. It sells so poorly that the manufacturer's announced they're going to stop making them. It's even from the same manufacturer but the paucity of its sales is what makes me believe a lot of people are iPhones for status symbols. I'm talking, of course, about the $400 iPhones SE (vs the iPhone 13 Pro which clocks in at $1,000). There are other differences too, but you will get made fun of, either to your face, or behind your back, for having a 'phone with a button'.

Just own up to the fact that you have a luxury phone.

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Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by Spivak on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:59PM (#29784751)

This is such a weird view of the world, Apple products are the Honda Civics. They're literally mass-market products with 50% market share in the US. They're not some snooty artisanal soda, they're Coke, and you're over here arguing that if you drink anything other than Big K you're doing it for the status.

You are allowed to aim a little higher than rice and beans for dinner without fear of it being called gourmet. It's been a decade since anyone cared what kind of phone you have. My four year old used iPhone with a cracked screen makes me look rich AF I'm sure.

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Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by skinnymuch on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:28PM (#29785192)

> but you will get made fun of, either to your face, or behind your back, for having a 'phone with a button'.

What? We must be living in different worlds. Being made fun of is bizarre.

There’s an iPhone SE 2 as well. I have it.

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Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by plorkyeran on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:24PM (#29787130)

Are you a teenager? I can understand phone status mattering a lot to them, but if someone tried to make fun of me for using an iPhone SE2 I'd just laugh at them for trying to assign status to such an embarrassingly minor thing.

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