Holy shit, are we still doing this? Just use whatever phone you want, who gives a shit. People who care deeply about others’ phone preference are weird. Signed, an iPhone user.

You don’t understand apple hype and you’re a Samsung guy?

You are in one of two large marketing demographics. Hope this clears that up.

On reflection, this post is more appropriate for !vent@lemmy.world, !venting@lemmy.ml, or the like. Please consider cross-posting this to either of those and continuing conversation there. Thanks!

Is this even a thing in 2023? I don’t know anyone who cares about that kind of stuff at all

The only conceivable place I can think of this conversation happening now irl is teenagers bullying each other over the type of phone they have - so I hope that’s not you getting bullied OP and having to vent here - but it’s fine if it is.

I’m content with my Samsung and Android, thanks.

I’m not. I want a workable Linux phone. Mobian on a OnePlus 6 gets close, but not quite there. I’m happy to deal with not completely ready software, but i need workable hardware at decent specs. The OP6 has workable specs, and you can get a good lots of stuff working, but it’s still missing some critical hardware support like camera and a lot of the sensors, and better battery management (though it still does surprisingly well). Screw all these vendors for not mainlining their hardware into the kernel. And fuck Google for enabling that behavior.

Who gives a shit? Don’t like Apple? Don’t use their stuff and get off your soapbox.

deleted by creator

Along with that, it is very odd how so many of my friends (not tech people really) think that Apple created this [feature/hardware/etc] even though it has been around long before Apple started doing it.

I don’t hate Apple users or anything. Although the type of Apple user you described is the worst. That kind of user is in any realm. Bikes, phones, cars, whatever. Its not just an Apple thing… but Apple does have a lot of them.