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The funny thing is that a LOT of those that say things like that, have an iPhone SE and a 10 year old MacBook and talk as if those that got a 1800 dollar Galaxy Fold are poor.

Obviously there's nothing wrong with those. Just saying it's a weird ass mindset to pretend your cheaper and significantly older product is better because it has some brand and not another.

Apple really did amazingly well with their marketing. They managed to make some people believe that a literal consumer product, that sells into the hundreds of millions each year, is some sort of ultra premium item that's unattainable and brings some prestige above the rest and it generates some inexplicable weird fetish.