You use an iphone because you’re a tech noob.

I use an iphone because I get it free as a hand-me-down from work every tech refresh.

We are not the same.

I wouldn’t necessarily say most likely, but maybe likely that you are a pseudo ludite. As such you don’t want to know or deal with tech.

Upvote for unpopular - although I’m an Android user I disagree with this sentiment. While iPhones are more accessible to a wider audience, most of them are already familiar with technology, seeing as we’re well over a dozen generations in looking at released iPhones.

Could you add a short body to this post if possible? As it stands this is in violation of rule 5 regarding trolling, particularly as your account was created a few minutes ago.

I always assumed that iDevice users were just (mentally) lazy. They’re the type of people that aren’t interested in learning new things and they think you’re the annoying one when text messages don’t show up correctly/full size on their iPhone.

To be a “techie” one needs to constantly be learning new things so it certainly feels like someone with an iPhone would be a tech noob… because the techie will have tried hundreds of things with all their tech devices and get excited when new stuff is available to try out. Whereas the iPhone user will just be satisfied with what’s familiar.

There’s Android people like that too… That don’t want to bother with learning a new device if they switch to the iDevice ecosystem. They even get super annoyed when an app makes minor changes to its interface. Like when Google recently changed their camera app so that switching between photo and video modes used a new slider UI element these people would be loudly bitching… Even though it really is a nice improvement once you get used to it.

Most people don’t like change that’s forced upon them. This is why Apple spends billions advertising the features of their products: So users will think positively of the changes instead of moaning about things getting changed right from under them.

Being someone that is pretty tech literate, and hate iPhones I thought the same. But there are a surprising amount of people in IT that have iPhones. Stuff like Firefox/uBlock origin and revanced mean I will stick with android forever. Easy side load and 3rd party app stores are a bonus.

I know it’s a different culture around tech everywhere. But where I am, this doesn’t seem like an unpopular opinion so much as an accepted thing. People who came to the internet quite late tend to go iPhone because it feels simpler and keeps them safer and that seems fine to me. Good that there’s an option for everyone.