Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple

• micka190@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Kids might want an Android phone for another reason than “we’re poor”. For a while, there were plenty of apps you could get on an Android that you couldn’t get on an iPhone. Customization was a big deal back when I was in highschool. All the cool kids had these shitty custom launchers that made their phone borderline unusable if you didn’t know how they were setup, but that was the cool thing to do back then.

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  • Slayer_of_Oryx@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve got the money to buy an iPhone, but prefer Android for customization and app reasons still. Apple is far too restrictive of a phone that you own. I like the ability to side load apps, and I play a lot of emulated GBA/DS games, and apple doesn’t allow emulator apps on their store.

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• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d read it the way it was written. Apple has less expensive phones for people who want them, and honestly most poor families just get their phones through their carrier at a monthly rate, so your assertion isn’t really a necessary tactic.

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  • Meltrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Uh… Apple has the iPhone. That’s all they have. They make the iPhone. One phone. What other phone do that have?

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    • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They currently offer 4 different families of iPhone for sale. The cheapest one is the SE for $429.

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