Oh my gosh, I never heard so many people pissed that other people didn?t get the mobile they bought. Who cares!!! It is just a mobile.
They talk about people being isheep, but they have no problem buying Android and everything Android. Even my friend had a moment when he found out I got an iPhone 6 and not a GS5. I told him to get a grip and he is older than I.
I did not know there was such an issue before, and how bad it was. My kid would get in troubled at school for being a bully with the behavior I am seeing.
It's like I can?t decide how to spend my money.
Has anyone had a friend have a cow because they found out you got an iPhone?
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It isn't just about Hating on a phone because it's different than their own. There are usability hurdles when trying to interop with devices outside of your device's native Services ecosystem, and which has different capabilities or the same capabilities implemented completely differently and in a non-standard/platform-limited fashion.
S Beam (WiFi [Direct] Sharing) on a Samsung device vs. AirDrop on an iPhone are two obvious examples.
Most of my social circle uses iPhones. When I had a 5S, I could just AirDrop them the 100MB video I recorded for them on my phone on the spot, or throw it in a Shared Photo Stream and they'd all get it. Can't do that from Android. If someone has an Android they can barely even participate in them.
Lots of people who switch platforms completely switch ecosystems because they don't want to keep unnecessary accounts open. It's what I do. It can cause issues. I guess "issue" is a strong word to use, but it gets the point across. Maybe "challenges" is better fitting?
This is part of the reason why people tend to push their choice platform onto their friends, and why social circles tend to be dominated by one platform or another.
iPhone users will push the iPhone so that they can avoid installing unnecessary apps for things like Messaging, Photo Sharing, etc. and get more value out of their device by putting its core features and services to better use.
Android users do the same.
Windows Phone users do it.
Blackberry users do it.
Yes, there are a lot of people who take it a bit too far. It's totally understandable that an Android user will push Android to his friends - as well as users of other platforms.
Technology doens't have to be a religion.
Every platform has haters. The bigger a deal it is, the more hate it tends to attract.
Ignore them.
No platform is a white knight, either. They're all full of these types of users. The user does not define the platform, so we all should try to avoid generalizing user bases as a whole based on the bahavior of the loud minority of users within it.
Oh, and welcome to the internet!