Why do iphone users still see their phones as a status symbol
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Especially teens and college students
Source: i'm a college student
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Especially teens and college students
Source: i'm a college student
That is how they market their products.
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Especially teens and college students
Source: i'm a college student
Apple tells them to.
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Especially teens and college students
Source: i'm a college student
Kids are like that. Most adults don’t care.
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Especially teens and college students
Source: i'm a college student
.. is there ever any logic to what people think are status symbols?
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Especially teens and college students
Source: i'm a college student
Tribalism didn't end when civilization started. Anyone not in the tribe is lesser, because the alternative would mean your tribe is lesser.
More specific to an iPhone, if you have one, you can do all the social iPhone things like FaceTime. Don't have one? You can't FaceTime, so there is a social friction or impediment to socializing. Then there is the "othering" of the green bubble and blue bubble thing. You can't share photos or videos the same if you don't have an iPhone. Since we are in a digital age and less physically present, not being able to digitally socialize the same way also inhibits socialization.
All of this is by design. Apple intentionally creates an ecosystem that will excert social pressure on people to buy their products so they can be part of the group like their friends.
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Apple tells them to.
How does that telling happen, actually?
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That is how they market their products.
And those demographics are very susceptible to marketing and peer pressure. The chat bubble colors are designed to make you think of alternative phone users as outcasts. Used to be the same with photos and videos in MMS.
By your late 20s most people don't give a shit about being labeled outcast, but by then you're locked into their ecosystem.
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Especially teens and college students
Source: i'm a college student
They bought it specifically for that purpose.
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Especially teens and college students
Source: i'm a college student
I think originally because they used to be only for AT&T customers and were the most expensive, then android started flooding the market with cheap shitty phones.
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Kids are like that. Most adults don’t care.
I may consider "many adults"... I still get grief about it from older adults (I'm talking people in their 40's and older). Though either of us could be correct.
These are people who can't be bothered with how things work, but... are amazing at what they do. So it's an interesting circumstance to observe, and I haven't come to any strong conclusions.
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They bought it specifically for that purpose.
Can't be any other purpose in my personal opinion. Android is better, to me.
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How does that telling happen, actually?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Marketing.
Go back to the Apple/PC ads in the 90's,where the Apple guy was hip, and the PC guy was an old fuddy-duddy in a brown suit.
Apple has always traded on the slickness of their products. They often claim to be the "first" at something, when they really just developed the first seriously marketable version.
iPhone wasn't the first smartphone by years. Just the first one that was slick enough for consumers to bite on, when a year before it was geeky to have such a device.
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Especially teens and college students
Source: i'm a college student
Uh, I don’t. It’s just a phone I use. That’s it.
Teenagers and students are just that; teenagers and students. Very often they care about ‘status symbol’ but also sometimes they don’t care.
I would recommend to stop generalizing.
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Especially teens and college students
Source: i'm a college student
I see mine for what it is. A phone. And a serious threat to my privacy. (I'm well into my 50s, if this matters)
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How does that telling happen, actually?
Marketing.
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Especially teens and college students
Source: i'm a college student
Why do you think they do? That’s not a thing in reality. That said, I don’t chat about mobile phones with a lot of college students at this point.
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Especially teens and college students
Source: i'm a college student
Wait people really give a shit? Never seen or heard about that
Source: I’m also a college student
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.. is there ever any logic to what people think are status symbols?
My labubu bandolier says there is.
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I may consider "many adults"... I still get grief about it from older adults (I'm talking people in their 40's and older). Though either of us could be correct.
These are people who can't be bothered with how things work, but... are amazing at what they do. So it's an interesting circumstance to observe, and I haven't come to any strong conclusions.
Those adults might still be children.
