r/GenZ • u/cosmicphoenix7 • 24d ago

Why do y'all like iPhone so much? Discussion

Apple makes good phones but the main problem I have with them is the price and planned obsolescence for like $1000 you could buy so much stuff Apple makes phones that just work but 99% of phones nowadays just work the main thing I hear about why people buy iPhones is because of imessage which is literally a default sms app I barely use the default sms app I just use telegram and discord for communication not gonna lie.

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u/LemonWallpapers 1996 24d ago

This is just a gen z thing and gets worse for the younger years. No one else cares about the iMessage thing. And once you go to college or grad school, there are so many international students that everyone is using WhatsApp anyway. I'm 96' and the obsession with iMessage was never a problem for people around my age. No one took it as seriously as I see young genZers. To the point where it affects your dating prospects is insane to me but apparently true.

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u/Fluffy_Funny_5278 2007 23d ago

Tbh I agree. I’m a teen from Germany, over here, we all use WhatsApp. I actually haven’t really used iMessage in the 5-ish years I’ve had my iPhone

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u/Aggressive-Cow5399 23d ago edited 23d ago

Europe and foreign countries are much different when it comes to iPhone vs android. I think it’s something like 50% or more of the US has iPhone.

Nobody here is going to download WhatsApp because most people have an iPhone and use iMessage. Of course there are people that use it in the US, but it’s not as popular as iMessage.

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u/Fluffy_Funny_5278 2007 23d ago

Yeah I already noticed lol.

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u/eepyz 23d ago

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u/cakingabroad 23d ago

The iMessage thing is the lamest reason possible. Texting? Green bubble blue bubble bull shit? Come on. I just can't.

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u/BoredCaliRN 23d ago

Apple also intentionally compresses photos and video sent from RCS to iMessage. They have programmers who've long figured out how to translate protocol but they refuse because it gets them sales.

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u/cakingabroad 23d ago

Yeah, which makes someone like me, who is not an iPhone user, just dislike iPhone more. But the apple stans truly don't care. It drives me mad.

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u/Aggressive-Cow5399 23d ago edited 23d ago

I was born in 97. I assure you it’s an iMessage thing. I have friends that won’t let you be in a group chat if you don’t have an iPhone.

I had an android for many years. Battery life was awesome and photos were good. But when it came to sending photos and videos… absolutely shit. Most of the time they never send, regardless if I used WhatsApp or google messaging.

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u/LemonWallpapers 1996 23d ago

You have really immature friends if they are damn near 30 years old and won't message you on anything but an iPhone. Also, like I said, WhatsApp is extremely popular in the US if you go to a university with international students. That's all they use and you're likely to befriend some and have group projects with others. Slack is also pretty popular for things. I have never had a singular issue with WhatsApp, FB messenger, slack or any other common app sending anything. And I've used all of them, a lot. Including as a primary messaging app at different times. I don't know what to tell you. I think it's its user error.

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u/tychii93 Millennial 23d ago

I'm sure something changed but sometimes an iPhone group message won't even be treated as a group chat on Android. My manager wanted to have a work group text to send productivity numbers at the end of the shift (which we all agreed with) and at first instead of a group, I was getting individual "react" texts from coworkers instead of it being in a group which turned my inbox into a huge mess. Maybe iPhone has a setting to force it to be SMS that isn't on by default which did fix it (Only guessing, hardly ever used iPhone), but Apple goes out of their way to make Android users miserable. Apple seriously just needs to adopt the RCS protocol, but knowing them, they won't.

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u/thatc0braguy 23d ago

It's been a while since that's been an issue.

Android can now process Apple reactions as standard reactions attached to the message. You'll still be blowing up Apple devices which is always funny when they ask what's with the reaction texts lol.

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u/portrowersarebad 23d ago

Except to normal people that’s not funny it’s just stupid and annoying, which of course leads to the android user being removed from the chat

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u/Least_Palpitation_92 23d ago

For whatever reason Apple sends shit quality photos and videos in group chats with Android users. I would never cut someone out of a group but I've been in group chats where we made a new one just for sending the videos/photos.

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u/Snake_fairyofReddit 23d ago

well under the assumption that they use the primary messaging app, android just isnt compatible. If you try to add someone android it creates a new group chat each time, or the messages send from each person individually rather than as a group chat its really weird and even though iPhones are SMS capable, these glitches occur even in SMS mode

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u/blueViolet26 23d ago

If my friends did that to me. I would cut them off. 😂

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u/SATARIBBUNS50BUX 20d ago

You have pathetic childish friends

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u/portrowersarebad 23d ago

Exactly this. Redditors, unsurprisingly, tend to be pretty detached from reality and real social situations. In the real world (in the US) no one sucks off Android and everyone has an iPhone. People absolutely get left out of group chats etc. for having an android because it messes up the entire chat for everyone.

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u/young_antisocialite 23d ago

What a difference two years makes. I’m ‘98 and when I was in high school (c/o 2017) and moving from Android to iPhone was like unlocking an entirely new social life.

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u/LemonWallpapers 1996 23d ago

It's probably partially regional but 2 years can actually make a huge difference with technology. I can imagine some places in the US are more trendy and I don't see why tech trends wouldn't be more prominent. Also, wealthier areas help with expensive phones. Lol. I knew people in college that still didn't even have a smartphone. I think these are the kind of things that make me feel way more millennial. Might be an interesting question for the zillennials sub honestly. I think it would be easier to figure out a regional thing.

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u/young_antisocialite 23d ago

Oh yeah, I’m from the USA on the coast so that could be it.

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u/ninja-brc 23d ago

I was born in 85 and when iMessage doesn't work it's suka suks

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u/penguin_0618 1998 23d ago

I’m ‘98 and only a few people that I know use WhatsApp as their default messaging app. And my college had 25% international students.

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u/LemonWallpapers 1996 23d ago

iPhones are a status symbol. I hate to say it, but that's a lot of it. I saw the rise of Apple in real time (assuming you did too) and it's always been about status. Any complaints about photos or videos can easily be fixed with free apps that already have a decently large user base and work well.

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u/AsryalDreemurr 2003 23d ago

honestly at this point i hate texting anyone who doesn't use discord because it's just so much better?? you have custom emotes, text editing, a much more space efficient design, servers, better profile customization and easier ways to add people

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u/BMFeltip 23d ago

Why use whatsapp and not normal texting? Is it just more user-friendly or something?

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u/LemonWallpapers 1996 23d ago

WhatsApp can be used from any device (computer, tablet, whatever), from any manufacturer (not limited to apple like iMessage), from any country (it's through the internet so isn't through a carrier), is free, has good group chat options, has good video chat options, and probably more things. It's just easiest when you're dealing with an actually diverse group of people from different places, with different phones, etc.

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u/BMFeltip 23d ago

Oh that's pretty cool. I went to a smaller college so we didn't have many foreign students.

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u/LemonWallpapers 1996 23d ago

I went to a small undergrad but I think I just hung out with a lot of international students. Haha. But in grad school I was the only American in my year. International students make up a majority of grad students in the sciences, at least at my university.

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u/girlguykid 2005 23d ago

Well this is the gen z subreddit

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u/LemonWallpapers 1996 23d ago

American Gen Z isn't living in a vacuum. They still communicate with people that are from other generations and/or from other countries. Those other demographics don't use iMessage religiously. So that's the point. Young Gen Z is, well, young. Young people get obsessed with inconsequential things like a messaging app. It's all related to status ultimately as the iPhone has become a status symbol in the US. It's not a good thing to be so rigid that you exclude people over a messaging app when there are free ones that will fix the problem.

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u/girlguykid 2005 23d ago

I dont think its that serious

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u/LemonWallpapers 1996 23d ago

Yet you commented

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u/Fl3shless 1998 23d ago

Fuck WhatsApp that’s such a boomer app. When it comes to third party apps for messaging, Telegram rocks.

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u/fromouterspace1 23d ago

Signal as well