Edit: and this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38272193
>As someone who cares little for the ideology of consumer choices, I don’t think we’d get along
This means you actually _do_ care about the ideology of consumer choices, no?
As another commenter states, it’s about taste or “weirdness”. Similar to making assumptions based on clothing or clothing or other chosen attributes.
Most people carry Redmi phones and use wired headphones here. It's absolutely about wealth.
But in the US, communication with Android users on iOS sucks. Garbage quality media, none of the usual features like reactions or groups or sharing things works well.
Your comment history suggests you have a personal identification with Android, which I think is making it hard to evaluate it rationally. I’d suggest considering whether that’s really a lot of money for something people use so much every single day, and whether your position might be one of the goals of the intense PR play Google has been making to get the EU regulators to make them less of an also-ran in the messaging space - they know it depends on convincing the regulators that Android users are being discriminated against, which is why you hear so many stories about that which turn out to be sourced back to Google and the phone companies.
Higher resolution photos, location sharing, in-line replies and emotes, etc etc
Group threads with a single Android user get annoying.
If Google gets everything they ask for, the shallow people will instantly move on to something else because that’s how people like that work.
