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Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS
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this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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It's a status symbol, sure... it may be stupid and primitive as a trophy around a caveman's neck... but we are just wired like that.
Nothing special here.
How is it not natural to want a status symbol? However I agree that companies abuse that to gain power and profit, I'm not questioning that.
It may be natural to want a status symbol (although that drive probably varies wildly between individuals), but I find it sad that having an iPhone is equated to status.
"Look at me in my expensive walled garden!"
Disclaimer: I also dislike Google's business practices in different ways
I feel you. I dream of the day Linux phones become a thing, but they are not ready yet, although great progress is being made.
Only poor people think a smartphone is a sign of wealth
Only spoiled children would say something like that
Yet no single wealthy person would dare whip out an Android.
This is a figment of someones imagination and demonstrates the entire trope is backed by people with no intelligence, but lots of competitiveness.
Your statement is not correct. Bill Gates uses Android phones:
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-uses-android-smartphone-samsung-galaxy-fold-not-iphone-2023-1
There are Android phones that are more expensive than the most expensive Apple phone you can get.
Samsung Fold is 2150€ for example.
It's not at all, and only the most purile idiots would ever think that, and completely proves my point