This might not be the right thread but since most ppl I've read on here carry both Apple and Android phones I figured I could vent to you all for a second if you don't mind. Plus yall will have better insight on the subject.
A young woman at work who is a pure apple fan (I'm talking like the stereotypical apple fan) if it isn't made by Apple she won't buy or even look at it. So we were discussing the iPhone 7 hissing phenomenon and the galaxy note 7 fires, just general conversation and then she said loves only iPhone's because their sleek, and run smooth and look cool....... I said yeah ios is a smoother operating system because of apples pure control over it. But Android has definitely got better. I also explained many of the features she loves on her iPhone were on Android phones a couple yrs or more before the iPhone. She just kindve brushed me off from that statement.
So then we get on appearance, she says iPhone's are so sleek and look good and made with good quality while on the other hand, Samsung phones are bulky and made cheaply. I said um have you even seen the latest Samsung phones? She said no cuz I only pay attention to iPhone's. So I take my s7 edge out the mophie case and compare it to her iPhone 6 and of course the edge is thinner and more sleek, modern and beautiful. You know what she says? Oh yeah the new Samsung's are more nice then before but they look like iPhone's. Look at the curve on the s7 edge and the bottom and top metal looks just like an iPhone! I just smiled and said um.... I don't think these phones look anything alike other then you can say the speaker grill but then that even looks different. Finally I just gave up and walked away.
Is this really how some ppl think? Apple or nothing and anything not made by Apple is irrelevant or less then?
Yes, that's exactly why the concept of Cult or the iSheep began, and to tell you the truth, even when some people get offended by this, they act exactly like that. When you have people that blindly follow something, called religion, leader or a thing that's called a Cult, have you seen a sheep following a Sheppard? That's basically the same concept. So now, does this looks familiar with the Blind Apple followers, the ones that if it don't have an Apple logo on the back doesn't buy anything? To tell you the truth, yes, indeed.
I'm an IT manager, I travel with my boss 1 or 2 times a year, last year, when I had the Note 5, just released, we went to a Braves game in Atlanta, in there I began recording 4K videos, taking pictures everywhere and simply using the whole Note features, he was all the game looking at my videos and my pictures after I took all of them, he was taking photos with his iPhone 6 Plus or 6S plus ( I don't remember if it was the latest one) and then deleting them saying, S**t, it seems I can't take a good picture today, bla bla bla, he also asked me for the phone so he could try it, he told me, it looks great, the screen is amazing, it's light, thin and incredible small for a 5.7" screen, smaller than his phone. Then some ladies in the row behind seems they were looking above my shoulders for my pictures and they asked me which phone I had and I said the Note 5, and they simply said, oh I thought that it was an iPhone, those pictures look great. So my boss simply gave up and told me, send me those pictures later I won't keep trying, and I said to him, hey, there is still an offer for you to buy one of this as it was just released and the Carriers are giving promos and everything to what he just said, no thanks, it's not an iPhone.
So, as you can see, yes, there are some people that have an open mind, and can use both platforms and appreciate both of them, also there are others that can't decide between them and use both at the same time, but the huge majority that buys iPhones are just that, people that wants to be cool or the ones that some people call Apple's Cult or the iSheeps.
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