Things like the cool new lemmy apps and the fold phones like the Galaxy Z Flip make me really want to change but it’s tough.
Any so much of a mention of leaving iOS for android around my normie friends or family leads to weirdly aggressive responses. They want to by able to react my messages and rename the group chats in their normie iMessage. They want to be able to stalk me with their normie Find My Friends app. They react like taking that away from them is basically stabbing them in the back. It’s like I just told a hardcore Trump supporter that Biden is #1 to their face. Normies are brainwashed.
It feels like I’m trying to leave a cult. It’s like I’m trying to leave the Mormon religion. It’s like I’m trying to get off drugs when everyone I know uses.
I just want you techies to know I’m jealous of your freedom. Maybe one of these days I can get clean.
It’s just a cellphone. You’ll live.
I don’t understand posts like this, tbh. I live in the US where iOS is predominant, and never have I ever been made fun of or “shamed” for using Android devices outside of some occasional “hey iPhones are cool, you should get one. Android phones are kind of lame”. What is this bizarro world that people like OP are living in? Is it a teen thing?
Lol right? Apparently this person’s entire social circle judges each other based on… their cellphone? Wat
Just a side note, who the fuck uses normie outside of 4chan? Leave that shit over there
Oh, what’s a better word to describe someone who is super mainstream and only likes something if other people like it or they were told to like it?
Average? Normal?
That isn’t a very useful way to categorize people, almost everyone is very much normal including yourself.
Wanting a different phone isn’t an expression of individuality, it’s just a phone. If you wanna be real quirky and novel, don’t use one at all (YMMV)
I really don’t see what the problem is, the other commenter is overreacting
Normie is incredibly common online in general. It’s not just relegated to weird right wing sites either.
I’m in my mid 30s and even I gotta say… you sound a bit like “old man yells at cloud” with this take. Just chill out a little bit. You’re making the rest of us approaching-middle-agers look bad.
And if you’re somehow younger than me then I gotta say… actually, keep it up. Your apparent lack of being terminally-online (oh no, I used a recently coined term…) is definitely healthier than whatever the fuck the rest of us are doing.
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The only people I see that have iPhones are the ghetto people that have no job. I can spot one when they walk in the door to my store. They look like a combination of gangsta and homeless. I will comment to whoever I’m working with and bet that they will want to pay with their iPhone. I’m usually right, and half the time they’re transaction is declined.
