GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone, but refuse to switch

Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by matthew28845 on Sunday February 26, 2023 @09:42PM (#34952322)

From personal experience this is mostly due to iMessage chats. Imagine for example that all of your friends have iPhones except one or two. From your perspective, they're the reason you can't have an iMessage chat with all the fancy features. Sure, you could use another messaging app, but why couldn't they just buy the phone that always works?

This perspective doesn't make sense to me, but it's how a majority of people think.

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by orbisvicis on Sunday February 26, 2023 @10:21PM (#34952560)

Not having an iphone is a good way to get out of conversations with people you don't want to converse with.

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by matthew28845 on Sunday February 26, 2023 @10:27PM (#34952587)

Case in point, anyone who loses a date by not having an iPhone is dodging a bullet.

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by auxfil on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:07PM (#34952850)

Haha, yeah, ok buddy.

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by DangitBobby on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:14PM (#34952881)

If phone preference is an actionable signal of eligibility to them, it probably wasn't gonna work out.

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by howinteresting on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:34PM (#34952989)

Having or being willing to make a Signal account (which makes the phone irrelevant) is an actually pretty great quality filter for dates in my experience.

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by throwaway81523 on Monday February 27, 2023 @12:01AM (#34953172)

I once got a date by telling the person I had ten laptop computers and no Facebook account.

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by rektide on Sunday February 26, 2023 @10:57PM (#34952782)

RCS will let anyone react with an emoji[1], which is like 95% of what people want/need/use. But ironically, the non-standard proprietary iPhone users all think everyone else is the problem, even though them & their phone is the non-partcipatory jank holding us back.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23475819/google-messages...

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by zinekeller on Monday February 27, 2023 @12:11AM (#34953229)

Sadly, Google have co-opted to run RCS (https://jibe.google.com/) and most people have now serious doubts if Google will ruin messaging again like how they ruined Hangouts. In all of this time, Apple maintained iMessage with not much fanfare so I am not surprised that most people just shrugged Google's campaign: everyone is tired of Google's irrationality.

Also the US carriers are only "supporting" RCS because they have no choice in the manner - Google pushed it hard. Imagine if Google have pulled the plug, would the carriers still maintain it?

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by pietro72ohboy on Monday February 27, 2023 @03:38AM (#34954297)

> Sadly, Google have co-opted to run RCS (https://jibe.google.com/) and most people have now serious doubts if Google will ruin messaging again like how they ruined Hangouts.

Even though there’s nuance to this (RCS is a standard but Google’s running their own server with E2E extensions), this statement is a common ruse to deflect the blame onto Google. All modern instant messaging services are centralised. This entire “Google runs RCS” debate is a straw man to deflect blame onto Google. Meanwhile, Apple is the party that doesn’t want anyone plugging into its walled garden.

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by kotaKat on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:19PM (#34959973)

Everyone ran an SMSC (and MMSC) just fine. There was no "centralized" messaging in cellular telephony in the past, just loosely linked carriers.

Until now, where suddenly Google seems to be the only RCS operator in town because hardly any carriers want to run their own RCS infrastructure.

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by zinekeller on Monday February 27, 2023 @09:27PM (#34964914)

> All modern instant messaging services are centralised. This entire “Google runs RCS” debate is a straw man to deflect blame onto Google. Meanwhile, Apple is the party that doesn’t want anyone plugging into its walled garden.

And this is precisely why. If RCS services were being operated by any other company, even Amazon, there isn't that problem of "what if Google pulled this out again" and RCS might be more palatable to the point that Apple will be forced to integrate it. Instead, Google pushed RCS out because they knew that they screwed up Hangouts hard.

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by ThePowerOfFuet on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:26AM (#34953655)

> Sure, you could use another messaging app, but why couldn't they just buy the phone that always works?

They _used_ to always work, but Apple's software quality has been declining over the years.

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Re:GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone,... by hulitu on Monday February 27, 2023 @08:15AM (#34956022)

> Sure, you could use another messaging app, but why couldn't they just buy the phone that always works?

Your definition of "works" is strange. Apple is not able to display a menu name when you use a bigger font.

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