I hate that it's so hard to accomodate Android users in an Apple world

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Anonymous wrote:I hate apple but got kid an iPhone so they would not be left out.

I really hate apple for designing their phones to leave out android users. That should be against the law as we all know it’s to claim a monopoly.

Correct. This is the point for apple. And the reason I won't get one.

So your beliefs are more important than your kids social life. Got it.

Yes I have beliefs and values and don't give in for every tech gadget or need to have item. Like my niece who got AF 1s and was shuffling around because she can't "crease" then. Jfc.

I have an android and communicate just fine with apple users. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars for a phone. I'm not contracting with Verizon or any other company that uses Apple to get users, we use a cheaper plan. When my child is adult they can buy their own phone and plan. In the meantime, we use value phones and a budget cell phone service because they work and why pay more?

The fact that you are so aggressive and antagonistic over a literal cell phone brand is bizarre.

She isn’t. You are. You’re unbelievably nasty because you’re a fragile and simple-minded snob. Signed - Apple user

Name calling is so tacky. Do better in 2024!

Do better with your self-awareness, you complete…

You should examine why you are fighting with people on the internet over your preferred cell phone brand.

That’s…what you’re doing. Not me. Not really OP, even. Poor little thing.

Keep reaching and trying to get the last word.

[Anonymous]

Why are some parents so insistent on making a point with these things? So you are anti-iPhone or antiphone until high school or whatever your point of moral superiority is. This is a hill you are going to die on when it is huge deal to teens to fit in and be included? Do your kid and their social life a favor and get them an iPhone.

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Do you have an old ipad your kids could use for apple group chats.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you have an old ipad your kids could use for apple group chats.

OP again and yes, I do think we have an old, old iPad stored somewhere. I think it's connected to my current phone/email, however, and I don't know how to change it back

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Anonymous wrote:I hate apple but got kid an iPhone so they would not be left out.

I really hate apple for designing their phones to leave out android users. That should be against the law as we all know it’s to claim a monopoly.

Correct. This is the point for apple. And the reason I won't get one.

So your beliefs are more important than your kids social life. Got it.

Yes I have beliefs and values and don't give in for every tech gadget or need to have item. Like my niece who got AF 1s and was shuffling around because she can't "crease" then. Jfc.

I have an android and communicate just fine with apple users. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars for a phone. I'm not contracting with Verizon or any other company that uses Apple to get users, we use a cheaper plan. When my child is adult they can buy their own phone and plan. In the meantime, we use value phones and a budget cell phone service because they work and why pay more?

The fact that you are so aggressive and antagonistic over a literal cell phone brand is bizarre.

She isn’t. You are. You’re unbelievably nasty because you’re a fragile and simple-minded snob. Signed - Apple user

Name calling is so tacky. Do better in 2024!

Do better with your self-awareness, you complete…

You should examine why you are fighting with people on the internet over your preferred cell phone brand.

That’s…what you’re doing. Not me. Not really OP, even. Poor little thing.

Keep reaching and trying to get the last word.

You attacked PP and claimed she was antagonistic when she wasn’t- it’s wild. I have an iPhone too, and a mom opting out and making other choices sounds like she’s making decisions that are good for her. You got witchy, but then you’re evidently tacky, so. Thanks for granting me the last word, mighty kind of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are some parents so insistent on making a point with these things? So you are anti-iPhone or antiphone until high school or whatever your point of moral superiority is. This is a hill you are going to die on when it is huge deal to teens to fit in and be included? Do your kid and their social life a favor and get them an iPhone.

Why do you care about what other parents do when it could not possibly have less to do with you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you have an old ipad your kids could use for apple group chats.

OP again and yes, I do think we have an old, old iPad stored somewhere. I think it's connected to my current phone/email, however, and I don't know how to change it back

Do a factory reset

[Anonymous]

My kid has a second generation SE and it is 100% fine. And comparatively cheap compared to other models. Fancy, no. Useful and compatible with other iPhones, yes.

[Anonymous]

I can't seem to join the bandwagon. I've always been using the alternative non apple products. I don't have any problems with my androids.
Never been that type of person about popularity. Same with people obessing over Tesla or TikTok, or Taylor Swift or football.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate apple but got kid an iPhone so they would not be left out.

I really hate apple for designing their phones to leave out android users. That should be against the law as we all know it’s to claim a monopoly.

Correct. This is the point for apple. And the reason I won't get one.

So your beliefs are more important than your kids social life. Got it.

Yes I have beliefs and values and don't give in for every tech gadget or need to have item. Like my niece who got AF 1s and was shuffling around because she can't "crease" then. Jfc.

I have an android and communicate just fine with apple users. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars for a phone. I'm not contracting with Verizon or any other company that uses Apple to get users, we use a cheaper plan. When my child is adult they can buy their own phone and plan. In the meantime, we use value phones and a budget cell phone service because they work and why pay more?

The fact that you are so aggressive and antagonistic over a literal cell phone brand is bizarre.

She isn’t. You are. You’re unbelievably nasty because you’re a fragile and simple-minded snob. Signed - Apple user

NP. Chill. The first PP was actually weirdly aggressive and I am a big fan of Android.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of my father, a programmer, refusing to buy MS Office in the early '00s and forcing us to use Corel Office at home instead because he had an ideological bone to pick with Microsoft. This made us constantly have to convert file formats back and forth to save or use on school computers or send to the 95% of normal people that had MS Office, and I was less comfortable in using all the available program tools on MS Word and Excel and PowerPoint than my friends who had it at home and it limited me. I resented it. It didn't make me admire my dad's independent-mindedness, it made me think he was pointless and petty and couldn't pick his battles and was thoughtlessly making a stand on my back rather than his own. For the record, of course he's now the only one in our family with an Android, because that's him.

No kid wants to be the one with the weird incompatible tech rooted in parental rigid dogma.

The bolded describes Apple perfectly. Android is widely compatible, Apple isn't, and Apple is the lifestyle brand with minority market share.

If I get my kid an Apple, then I need one too (because of compatibility, and to monitor) and it just perpetuates the problem.

[Anonymous]

I love my Android. I hate iPhones. I had one years ago and did not find it intuitive at all despite everyone saying it was. But what I hate the most is that Apple makes the integration hard, as others have said.

You have to do what you feel is right, but I got my kid a refurbished iPhone.

Try the sites gazelle or back market. They have worked out well for me. GL.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't seem to join the bandwagon. I've always been using the alternative non apple products. I don't have any problems with my androids.
Never been that type of person about popularity. Same with people obessing over Tesla or TikTok, or Taylor Swift or football.

What does driving a comparatively non popular, mid level car have to do with popularity?

You sound like someone who comes up with their own internal conspiracy theories because facts aren’t what you want to hear.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate apple but got kid an iPhone so they would not be left out.

I really hate apple for designing their phones to leave out android users. That should be against the law as we all know it’s to claim a monopoly.

Correct. This is the point for apple. And the reason I won't get one.

So your beliefs are more important than your kids social life. Got it.

Yes I have beliefs and values and don't give in for every tech gadget or need to have item. Like my niece who got AF 1s and was shuffling around because she can't "crease" then. Jfc.

I have an android and communicate just fine with apple users. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars for a phone. I'm not contracting with Verizon or any other company that uses Apple to get users, we use a cheaper plan. When my child is adult they can buy their own phone and plan. In the meantime, we use value phones and a budget cell phone service because they work and why pay more?

The fact that you are so aggressive and antagonistic over a literal cell phone brand is bizarre.

She isn’t. You are. You’re unbelievably nasty because you’re a fragile and simple-minded snob. Signed - Apple user

Name calling is so tacky. Do better in 2024!

Do better with your self-awareness, you complete…

You should examine why you are fighting with people on the internet over your preferred cell phone brand.

That’s…what you’re doing. Not me. Not really OP, even. Poor little thing.

Keep reaching and trying to get the last word.

You attacked PP and claimed she was antagonistic when she wasn’t- it’s wild. I have an iPhone too, and a mom opting out and making other choices sounds like she’s making decisions that are good for her. You got witchy, but then you’re evidently tacky, so. Thanks for granting me the last word, mighty kind of you.

Whatever moral ground you think you’re standing on doesn’t exist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you have an old ipad your kids could use for apple group chats.

OP again and yes, I do think we have an old, old iPad stored somewhere. I think it's connected to my current phone/email, however, and I don't know how to change it back

Do a factory reset

The apple store is very helpful with resetting old ipads as long as you can log in or prove it is yours (I recently had to do this for an ipad we inherited from someone who died)