Apple vs Android: the Great Debate
Summary
A passionate Android user invokes Karl Marx's theory of conspicuous consumption to explain why people really buy iPhones. It's not about superior technology. According to this Brooklyn straphanger, it's about elitism and showing off. Kareem pushes back, but the rider doubles down with a personal story: she's been ghosted by Tinder dates who went from chatting on the app to blocking her the moment those dreaded green texts appeared. That's discrimination, she insists. The great phone divide isn't just about specs or battery life. It's apparently a dating dealbreaker.
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So what's your take? Androids are the best phone? 100% disagree. Androids are the best phone. They have the best battery life. It's all this like idea goes back to K.L. Marks actually of conspicuous consumption.
Wait, who's that? How do you live in Brooklyn? And it's like the elitism of having an iPhone. What is conspicuous consumption? It's like consuming so that other people can see you consume stuff. You don't buy the iPhone because it's the best product. It's actually not. It goes to like that's been proven too. You buy the iPhone to shame Android users.
But I'm a freethinking woman. I don't give a what anyone has to say about me. You any times I'll meet a guy from Tinder. We go off app. Oh, we're chatting this and that. Soon as I text him, oh, green text and block me. No, don't do that. He blocked or not blocked but ghosted for the green text. For the green text. That is for the green text. That's discrimination. That's discrimination. That's which Android do you have?
Admittedly I have an old one. An Android.