On a serious note, Aziz Ansari (Tom Haverford from Parks and Rec) has a pretty good book called Modern Romance that's worth a read. When he does standup, he'll have a volunteer from the audience swipe though their Tinder (or Bumble or whatever) matches. The amount of trivial stuff that people dismiss potential partners for is absolutely amazing. People will be like "they're a Bears fan, swipe left."
So people could be compatible on 999/1000 different levels, but our methods of online dating almost allow too much choice, because people feel like they should hold out to find someone who matches 1000/1000.
I would love to say "use whatever you like", but these Apple sycophants are ridiculous. They literally judge people because of the color of a text bubble! It's like saying "both US political parties are bad". Like, yeah: one party is flawed, but the other wants to destroy Democracy...
Men, proudly drag that battered and cracked android phone out on the first date, it's a litmus test for shallow people, apparently.
I went on a first date with a girl I met from work. She farted loud enough to be heard over drunken yelling and music in the steakhouse we were in, immediately after saying "I don't get embarassed".
In a couple of weeks, we will have been together for 16 years. We've been married for 14 years. We cook together every evening, we hold each other whenever we are in the same room for more than five minutes, and on the rare nights where we aren't taking each other's clothes off, we fall asleep wrapped around each other. I would have missed out on a perfect relationship if I had judged her for a phone.
I take it with a grain of salt because he's a humorist, but in Dave Barry Does Japan, his wife tells him at one point, "I heard three farts today. It's okay here." I haven't read that book in decades and I still remember that line because I thought, how nice to live in a place where people don't hide basic bodily functions.
There are lots of reasons for using a smartphone beyond avoiding engaging in conversation though. Looking things up, sharing contact info, planning another date, paying for the meal/event, even going to a movie can almost require an app.
I'm not saying these would be the majority of the time or anything, but not using your phone whatsoever is more of a limitation than you'd think.
It's only been 2 years since my last "first date". I know the world moves pretty fast, but I'd be shocked to discover that in the last 24 months the world went from "can be traversed without looking at your phone" to not.
I guess I'd turn it around on you: NOT using your phone is NOT as much of a limitation as you'd think.
Also, so many stupid things we do on our phone are things that could be an interaction with your date instead. What WAS that movie with Brendan Fraser with The Rock? Where IS that restaurant with no lights and all the servers are blind? What time is it? What direction is the river from here? What nationality is Santa Claus? How far north would we have to go so that Zombies would be frozen solid for at least 3 months per year? The point of a date is to attempt to form a bond, and it's the shared journey that gets you there, not the successful and efficient completion of independent tasks.
Obviously, if the only way to pay for the meal is to tap your phone, tap your phone. The PHONE isn't the enemy. It's that you're your own enemy, and that your nervousness and awkwardness is going to try to push you into the comfort of your phone for reasons that you REALLY don't need to be on your phone for. Embrace the awkwardness and as much as physically possible lean on your date for anything you imagine your phone can do.
Oh, I don't disagree, people opt-out of being present in favor of their phones far too often. I'm just reminding us of the context of hiding your social, financial, and often legal, sci-fi multi-tool. Reducing usage and eliminating usage can be very different things for many people.
Yeah, it's not great if you think about it, but it's standard. I'm not here to be a prescriptivist; I'm just describing my experience (and it's a common one in the US of A).
My brother in Christ you sound like you've never been to a restaurant with waiters. And regardless you also literally just said "Most places you just pay with your phone or your card" after asking how he would pay if he couldn't use his phone. You literally already know the answer to your own question.
Well, you could pull up your phone for a short while if you excuse yourself and preferably tell the other person what you're doing. "Excuse me, I just have to find the tickets on my phone". This goes for any time you're talking to another person, btw, not just dates, otherwise you're being disrespectful to the people around you.
I'd be willing to date someone with a similar amount of contempt for anything apple to what I have. I'd also be willing to date someone with an interest in the type of phone I use (like a phone enthusiast, though I don't share that enthusiasm). If she suggests I should root my phone, she'd be a keeper.
The funny thing is a lot of people in Europe do this anyway because imessage is incompatible with everything else, and for some reason no one cares about message bubble color in Europe.
Counter-suggestion (and this applies to everyone with an Android regardless of gender dating anyone else regardless of gender), do use your Android phone in front of your date because that weeds out psychos who would reject you over not owning their preferred product.
I'm 36, and a disabled veteran. I put that in my tinder profile, cause I know most women are going to hate that I'm not maximizing the selling of my life to capitalism.
I've had two chicks match with me just to tell me my profile is shit for including that - Whatevs if you're gonna swerve me for chillin on a pension let's get it out of the way instead of wasting my time until work comes up. 🤷
I just now replied to another comment remaking I had never heard of "curve" being used like this. And there are already variants of it? How long has this been a thing?
This is a feature of android, not a bug. If someone is that shallow and can't consider the possible motivations of using a GASP different phone, they would be a really bad partner.
Back in the days, basic bitches would dump you because you didn't drive a german car. Now they judge you on your phone. Times are hard for everyone it seems.
If a woman is that shallow and materialistic then the guy is dodging a bullet. Anyhow, it's a weird thing to say since "android phone" could mean literally anything from a basic $100 smartphone all the way up to a $50,000 Vertu diamond and white alligator skin. i.e. it could mean the guy is sensible with his money or even more shallow and materialistic than the girl could ever dream to be.
Could mean that he enjoys a near complete lack of privacy, likes to use a samsung web browser, has his life assfucked by Google, likes shovelware, or wants a phone that only gets updates for 3 years. I’d be suspicious too.
Yeah....
Or it could be the complete opposite of all that.
Android / AOSP comes in many flavours from Swiss cheese give your life away security to locked down more than any apple device could be.
IOS only comes in 1 flavour.
Something on par with iOS for usability and security.
And as virtuous as everyone claims iOS and Apple are for security they really aren't that great.
It's clear you've drunk the koolaid so I won't waste my time further.
Lineage is not about providing a google free version of Android. It does not contain google apps, for licensing reasons, probably also to let the user choose. But it does not go further, all the other stuff like captive portal check, agps, dns etc still uses google servers. It's not "degoogled" in any way. Love lineage btw but we need to be aware of what it is and isn't.
Would graphene OS be the answer here then? I've been looking around for my new phone lately as I'm trying to do the same. Would it be possible to de-google lineage OS manually or is it just better to pick another OS? Sorry for the questions but I don't really know where the FOSS android communities are yet so I don't know where to look for the answers.
LMAO iPhones have those problems but like 10x as much, just replace Google&Samsung with Apple. Imagine not being able to download or use anything that isn't approved by big daddy Apple.
Does this really matter that much in the US?. Here in the Netherlands about 70% of people had an android phone in 2022. Nobody really cares what you use, as long as you're happy using it.
I'm not the one paying a grand for a phone that doesn't support basic SMS functions and reduces the quality of MMS for goodness knows what reason but probably money
Yeah, no one claimed it was intellectual, stop putting words in my mouth.
All grandma knows is when we add cousin Linus all the bubbles turn green and the photos look terrible, so she leaves him out and only emails him later if she remembers.
Also, yeah that’s Apple’s fault. Never said it wasn’t.
But to imply that there is, like, bubble racism or something going on, ie it’s purely over aesthetics, and that people are being “infantile” because of it, is ignorant reductance of such magnitude that you basically burned your own strawman down.
You don't know what you're talking about then, since Android has exactly the same feature set as iOS (I mean why wouldn't it) it's just that Apple refuses to use a universal standard that's compatible and as per usual insists on using their own made-up proprietary nonsense, see charging cables, iTunes, the Apple watch, and air tags. So Android phones have to default to SMS to send any messages to iPhones. Between android devices the feature sets are there.
Which is exactly one of the reasons I hate Apple. That feature set mismatch isn't done because Android developers can't figure out how to implement those features. It's because Apple is locking out anyone else from using them to encourage this shit so they sell more iPhones. Your choice is as much the reason your chats don't have those features as any Android owner's choice is.
I remember when the iphone first came out. A guy in my country flew to the US to buy one then came back to brag that he's the first one in the country to have one and he couldn't even use it here.
I hope you would not avoid me for having an iPhone any more than I would avoid you for having an Android phone because judging people for what phone or computer or OS they use is stupid. In my case, I have an iPhone because I got in very early and now have several hundred dollars' worth of apps I don't want to pay for again. Maybe one day I will decide it is worth that sacrifice, but right now, I don't feel like it is. I also don't get the latest and best iPhone. I replaced my XR with a 13 this year.
But to me, you are no better than the hypothetical date in this post who judges the person for not having an iPhone. Why do either of you give a shit? It's a personal choice and it doesn't matter any more than what color your house is painted or what percent of fat you like in your milk.
Judge people for their attitudes and their actions, not what personal devices they decide to spend their money on.
iPhone is dominant in the US, but I can't believe people give enough of a shit about which smartphone someone uses for it to be a dealbreaker in finding a significant other.
Oh they definitely do, especially among young people. They even get bullied over the color of the iMessage text bubble which shows up in different color if the message was sent from a phone other than iPhone.
For a large portion of women they can have almost anyone at the push of a button and so they start rejecting people for the most absurd things.
I imagine the same could be said for the "chads" on dating sites, but I think they care more about the pump and dump than being superficial about anything because they aren't in it for a relationship.
Then there is me, a literal joke of a human. My phone would probably be the last thing I'd get rejected for as you won't even get that far before swiping "not ever." Lol
Yeah, sometimes it's just a bad vibe or something they might think is silly but they can't ignore their instincts. So a woman may tell you it's something like your phone or the restaurant was too cheap, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's true.
I've found there's a big subset of people, myself included when I don't watch for it, who can't help but try to pick apart the reasoning behind "No" if you give them a full explanation.
Explaining your thought process on why you are declining gives them the tools to try to change your mind, to explain to you why your answer was wrong.
If you just want to wash your hands of situation, saying no with little to no explanation stops them from trying to salvage it, to convince you otherwise. I feel like giving a stupid bullshit explanation like "you have an android" may be the same idea.
Exactly this, the polite excuse vs the rational are different. Even when talking to friends you might use the excuse because you don't want to go into details.
Is this a thing in the US? Here the only time i care is when i dont have my charging cable with me and im looking for one (although this should be changing)
I had a guy I briefly worked with say he didn't text android phones. I laughed at him and told him that was the lamest thing I've ever heard. I was happy to never have to do anything with him.
Damn right. Put a portable induction burder and a cast iron in that fridge to emphasize weight isn't a constraint, and I know we'll me eatin good in the neighborhood.
Guess that’s like those dating profiles that people post online once in a while where the woman demands a height, weight, and income before they even consider talking to a man. At least that’s up front and honest, even if it’s shallow.
I really don’t understand the social cache of an iPhone. It’s overpriced tech. I’d rather someone say right off the bat that they won’t talk to somebody who doesn’t have an iPhone. No need to deal with someone so superficial and interested in wasting money on shit specifically because they want it for showing off how much money they spent.
iPhones are literally only usable as phones. Trying to do anything complicated with them is a nightmare. Back when I last had an iPhone you literally couldn't even install a swipe keyboard.
That’s a pretty absurd take. The phone portion of the iPhone is probably the least used feature on my device.
No, they don’t let you customize them outside of what apple says you can do (one of the things I hate about apple is how restrictive they are because they assume customers are idiots and apple wants extreme control of its image, and customers like being treated like idiots), but they are pretty much as useful as any smart phone or tablet. There definitely are some caveats to that, but you need to be looking for pretty advanced tools before you run into barriers on iOS devices.
The advanced tools are why android is the only option for a mobile office. I really do wish there was more competition from Apple in the space. They make incredible products, they're just corrupted by an absolutely ridiculous business model of wall gardens.
I mean if your looking to date a high schooler this is probably a factor you'd consider. No one cares about your phone, at most just that you have one to be able to contact you.
Tell me youre a mouth breathing moron without telling me youre a mouth breathing moron.
Im equally likely to curb you if you use an iphone. You demonstrate herd mentality and that you dont understand technology. You spent $2k to use instagram and tiktok. Wow.
My partner went from an Evo with a physical keyboard to an iPhone because it took the best pictures at the time, and had a better touchscreen keyboard than nearly any android phone. I played with their iPhone and, as a custom ROM Android physical keyboard lover… I switched as well. It’s just perfect for what I need a phone to do. I never have to reset it, I never have to reformat, it does full image backups with software I don’t have to use my brain to use, it’s just the best. My current phone is five years old and runs faster than most of my friends’.
I’m hella biased now but not because I hate Android (I don’t like google, so I’d be using a custom ROM) but because this thing works perfectly for me.
I’m a Windows and now a Linux user, though I have a 2011 MacBook Pro that’s still kicking I use occasionally, but for phones, I don’t think I could ever go back.
I've been using GrapheneOS for a few years now and I've never had to reset/reformat anything. It just works, aside from the unsupported features of course.
Now my phone do be kinda slow, but the current Pixel phones look very promising in terms of longevity
I’ve heard great things about Graphene! I want to say I was using Lineage? It was ages ago, though! It made my HTC Dream usable, when the default OS was insanely laggy.
I’m full-on iOS from now on, though. After two phones that have been hella fast after five years and just the comfy nature of the OS (not to mention the 10/10 cameras), I love it.
As a teen I got really frustrated with ios because the animations were so long. Navigating the phone was: tap - wait for animation to finish - tap - wait - tap - wait
The most infuriating was rolling through the opened apps, because it would keep rolling and you couldn't swipe up to close an app while it did that.
Back then I got so mad I almost threw my ipod touch at the wall xD
The other day I got unmatched by a girl on a dating app because she wanted my WhatsApp and not a phone number. We literally had already agreed to go on a first date and then she's like "I don't use my phone much so you need to use WhatsApp" and I'm like "I don't have WhatsApp, here's my cell number: XXX-XXX-XXXX" and then she disappeared from my matches on Hinge lol
She has no sim card and exclusively uses whatsapp for calling.
She doesn't want you to know her number unless she gets to know you.
She's lying or scamming.
I'm leaning towards number 2 if you're outside the US, because I imagine I'd rather set up a new profile than change my phone number. If you're inside the US, I'd bet it's number 3. Whatsapp doesn't seem to be as popular in the US.
100% #3. one of the reasons I've stopped using dating apps is all the scammers. That and it's a literal meat market, where you're constantly having to talk to multiple people because so many just ghost you, and every message you send better be lighthearted, funny, amusing, and flirty or else fuck you.
I assume she had a cell phone since we were using Hinge (which AFAIK is only a mobile app). She just said she never used her phone. Which, like.... you're using it right now?
I go through this a lot with matches. I just give them a list of the messengers I use. And then hopefully we can find something in the middle. If they insist on meta based messaging (Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram), I actually just politely decline or more accuratly just stop messaging.
Two of us can play this game, if she ain't using linux or some BSD I'm leaving (but not after installing minimal gentoo and leave it without an internet connection on all her devices for her to figure out)
I am so tired of hearing this bs. Android cost just as much, if not more than apple (iPhone 15 cost $800, Google pixel 8 cost $700 and yes that's an Android phone), we have just as good a camera as iPhone, our designs are ever evolving meanwhile iPhone is stuck in the past by at least 4 years, if not more, and the only reason videos look like shit over text is because of the weird formatting the company put in. Please, for the love of all that is holy, explain to us what is so appealing about iphone?
I got a carrier unlocked Pixel 7 a year ago and it was like $500... I will probably get at least 5 years use out of it. There are definitely "premium" Android phones with special form factors or enhanced features. Really to classify every device running Android as the same is ridiculous. It'd be like saying a Volkswagen TDI Golf and a Sherp ATV are the same because they both run diesel engines.
To your point about features... there are vendors taking risks and therefore the newer and better features tend to be available in some Android phone first. I remember walking around turning TVs on and off with my Galaxy S4 to the amazement of Apple normies. Many of us also had wireless charging like 2 years before Apple customers even knew what that was.
Being locked to one company like that sounds like a nightmare, for all those 5 years? Not for me, I bought an unlocked pixel 5 a few years ago and mostly use prepaid or an unlimited plan from one of the smaller companies, can't go wrong with the freedom to move around to find the best price and service.
I'm surprised you didn't realise that iPhone is status symbol. There was like a map of New York City overlaid with dominant phone types in an area. Richer Manhattan mostly has iPhones while the poorer area like Queens has Android.
Sure, you can get brand new android devices for under $100. You can also get Android devices that cost more then iPhones. It's a made up status symbol. Like airpods. Airpods suck and look like crap hanging out of someone's ear. But because it's Apple it's "cool". It's practically a cult.
Yeah, there are just as expensive Android phones, but it has many different brands with varying reputation. iPhone on the other hand is just one brand and there is an already established image of it as being high class. Precisely as you said, richer folks buy expensive iPhone simply because of the brand, not out of practical reason as to why the item is expensive like labour and material cost. A lot of the times, the prices are made out of sheer subjective perception. Showing off having an iPhone signals to the date "I'm rich, fuck me."
This makes me want to migrate back to Android. This is the kind of woman that will be crying in her Tik Toks about being single at 35 in her car at Applebees.
You are all is mostly shortened to y'all as well.
This would be a very informal usage, and y'all should probably not be used in any professional correspondence.
Language is constantly changing and evolving. The rigid rules we are typically taught in grade school are less rigid than we're led to believe--in the end, "correct" language is whatever works to convey information from one person's head into another.
In this case, dropping the verb doesn't impact our ability to understand the meaning. It's called null copula and you probably do the same thing in other contexts (e.g., "You coming?").
This isn't a thing, especially when you can barely tell the difference by looking at the phone alone. It's going to be like 90% phone case, and most phones are practically very little bezel screens so you can't tell from the front.
If you take a second to look at something that appears superfluous like that you start to see the underlying hatred there. No free thought, fall in line square activity and cut out anyone who isn't of the arian race, I mean doesn't have a white phone. Sorry, typo.
(Obviously this comment is not meant to be taken literally, but yes I equated iPhone users to conservatives, while implying Android users would be independent free thinkers)
I use an Android phone because way back when smartphones first started to become available, iPhones were a ludicrously expensive £400 and I didn't have that kind of money so I bought an Android for £30.
I never switched to iPhone because there was never any point. I just don't get the point in buying an iPhone. They're not actually good phones and Apple doesn't know the meaning of the word innovation.
I was a long time Android user and switched to an iPhone (work provides me with one) after my OG Pixel finally died. I agree both of them have their weird quirky issues and the iPhone definitely doesn't "just work" like Apple wants you to believe.
A lot of news articles copy and paste rage bait like this. They see one "post" on Twitter and suddenly everyone is doing this. The post is usually from a bot.
My fiancé had a Pixel 3 when we first starting dating, when the 6 was already out by then. Tbh dgaf, he's smart and a phone doesn't equate to a good personality.
My sibling said it cut their dates down by a third as soon as they switched from tinder to texting. They said to use snapchat instead because it was so bad.
Sometimes society collectively starts doing something incredibly dumb and you just have to roll with it if you want to participate.
Idk about where you're from but it's been curve OR curb for years at this point. How you can somehow make a statement on ignorance out of your own ignorance is poetic in a way.
If someone dumps me on a first date over my phone then so be it. It actually looks like dodging a bullet.
I'd dump you for not knowing the difference between then and than.
SpaceNoodle is the real killer here
On a serious note, Aziz Ansari (Tom Haverford from Parks and Rec) has a pretty good book called Modern Romance that's worth a read. When he does standup, he'll have a volunteer from the audience swipe though their Tinder (or Bumble or whatever) matches. The amount of trivial stuff that people dismiss potential partners for is absolutely amazing. People will be like "they're a Bears fan, swipe left."
So people could be compatible on 999/1000 different levels, but our methods of online dating almost allow too much choice, because people feel like they should hold out to find someone who matches 1000/1000.
Joke's on you, that's basically my only criterion.
Ah, a Packers fan I see.
I don't get it.
I thought you meant that hating the Chicago Bears was the only thing you were looking for in a partner, so I assumed you were a Green Bay Packers fan.
Oh. No, quite the opposite. That makes me realize I have two criteria: good grammar, and a loathing of sports.
I'm sorry, that's actually a mistake, fixed it
It's too late, I already dumped you
So no coach co-op?
No coaching, I expect you to already be trained.
I would love to say "use whatever you like", but these Apple sycophants are ridiculous. They literally judge people because of the color of a text bubble! It's like saying "both US political parties are bad". Like, yeah: one party is flawed, but the other wants to destroy Democracy...
Men, proudly drag that battered and cracked android phone out on the first date, it's a litmus test for shallow people, apparently.
I went on a first date with a girl I met from work. She farted loud enough to be heard over drunken yelling and music in the steakhouse we were in, immediately after saying "I don't get embarassed".
In a couple of weeks, we will have been together for 16 years. We've been married for 14 years. We cook together every evening, we hold each other whenever we are in the same room for more than five minutes, and on the rare nights where we aren't taking each other's clothes off, we fall asleep wrapped around each other. I would have missed out on a perfect relationship if I had judged her for a phone.
Her origin story:
RIP craigslist personals
In your situation, it had nothing to do with a phone, haha. Swell on you for not judging her though.
Judging someone for a bodily function is just stupid.
I take it with a grain of salt because he's a humorist, but in Dave Barry Does Japan, his wife tells him at one point, "I heard three farts today. It's okay here." I haven't read that book in decades and I still remember that line because I thought, how nice to live in a place where people don't hide basic bodily functions.
I’m gonna have to get myself an old android phone I suppose
But you see, you had genders swapped here. It’s OK for a woman to show hers, just don’t show yours (/s, obviously)
/s but not really. Men aren’t supposed to have standards when it comes to women according to many women
Aren't allowed to have standards...cuz womenz can do absolutely anything and men MUST luuuurve them...right?
the best move is to show your android phone in your profile pics so you don't get trapped with someone so shallow
Holy shit I've got some boomer energy, here:
The reason to not take out your phone isn't because someone might hate on your phone.
You don't take out your phone on a date so that you can be giving that person your full attention.
There are lots of reasons for using a smartphone beyond avoiding engaging in conversation though. Looking things up, sharing contact info, planning another date, paying for the meal/event, even going to a movie can almost require an app.
I'm not saying these would be the majority of the time or anything, but not using your phone whatsoever is more of a limitation than you'd think.
People with existing family trying to date, like a single parent checking on their kids. For sure the blanket no phone attitude is unrealistic.
Despite the boomer energy, I'm not actually one.
It's only been 2 years since my last "first date". I know the world moves pretty fast, but I'd be shocked to discover that in the last 24 months the world went from "can be traversed without looking at your phone" to not.
I guess I'd turn it around on you: NOT using your phone is NOT as much of a limitation as you'd think.
Also, so many stupid things we do on our phone are things that could be an interaction with your date instead. What WAS that movie with Brendan Fraser with The Rock? Where IS that restaurant with no lights and all the servers are blind? What time is it? What direction is the river from here? What nationality is Santa Claus? How far north would we have to go so that Zombies would be frozen solid for at least 3 months per year? The point of a date is to attempt to form a bond, and it's the shared journey that gets you there, not the successful and efficient completion of independent tasks.
Obviously, if the only way to pay for the meal is to tap your phone, tap your phone. The PHONE isn't the enemy. It's that you're your own enemy, and that your nervousness and awkwardness is going to try to push you into the comfort of your phone for reasons that you REALLY don't need to be on your phone for. Embrace the awkwardness and as much as physically possible lean on your date for anything you imagine your phone can do.
Oh, I don't disagree, people opt-out of being present in favor of their phones far too often. I'm just reminding us of the context of hiding your social, financial, and often legal, sci-fi multi-tool. Reducing usage and eliminating usage can be very different things for many people.
Yeah, that's my immediate thought as well. Attention is huge.
So how are you paying?
What do you mean?
You pay for your meal via contactless right? So you have to get your phone out.
No one saying they get your phone out in the meal. It's just if you get your phone out at any point on a first date, they'll see it right?
Excuse me while I take the expandable memory out of the expandable memory slot on my phone with decent features.
At a sit-down place, you normally give your card to the waitstaff once they bring the check/receipt. There's no tap-to-pay terminal they bring to you.
That’s the norm in all of the US
Yeah, it's not great if you think about it, but it's standard. I'm not here to be a prescriptivist; I'm just describing my experience (and it's a common one in the US of A).
That's not how it works everywhere in the world. Most places you just pay with your phone or your card.
My brother in Christ you sound like you've never been to a restaurant with waiters. And regardless you also literally just said "Most places you just pay with your phone or your card" after asking how he would pay if he couldn't use his phone. You literally already know the answer to your own question.
Uh...I pay for stuff with the little plastic card in my wallet, or the greenish pieces of strangely stiff paper.
I haven't ever set up any kind of payment stuff on my phone and I've never had any issue paying for anything.
Card? Cash? I can't think of the last time I paid with my phone at a sit-down restaurant.
I've got some zoomer info for you: We use our phone to check the time
Huh? But what if you need to like...get somewhere? Or pull up some tickets or something?
Well, you could pull up your phone for a short while if you excuse yourself and preferably tell the other person what you're doing. "Excuse me, I just have to find the tickets on my phone". This goes for any time you're talking to another person, btw, not just dates, otherwise you're being disrespectful to the people around you.
Now tell em to fuck off our lawns!
Let's face it: If they were that superficial, they wouldn't have dated me to begin with.
If they are that superficial, you dong want to date them. Use every effective "shitty person" filter you can, as quickly as you can.
Lol, I'm leaving it
My dong will take whatever it can get
Most superficial part of course
I don’t think I would want to date a woman who cares what phone I use.
I dunno, I think it would be fun to discuss parts of AOSP my date and I are both familiar with.
I'd be willing to date someone with a similar amount of contempt for anything apple to what I have. I'd also be willing to date someone with an interest in the type of phone I use (like a phone enthusiast, though I don't share that enthusiasm). If she suggests I should root my phone, she'd be a keeper.
Alternate take: Buy an Android phone and use your green bubble to weed trash people out of your life.
Is there a way to get the green bubbles if you use an iPhone?
Yeah, you can disable iMessage in the Messages settings.
The funny thing is a lot of people in Europe do this anyway because imessage is incompatible with everything else, and for some reason no one cares about message bubble color in Europe.
Pro-tip: I stuck a sticker of a large banana on the back of my android.
Everyone's a fan of a big banana.
I have no mouth and I must scream.
I am no longer a fan of big banana
Who hurt you
Unlike the others, as someone who hates bananas, this is how I perceive all bananas. Except my perception is far worse.
Use your android without concern, any girl that cares about your phone that much can self-curve herself and save you problems down the road.
Counter-suggestion (and this applies to everyone with an Android regardless of gender dating anyone else regardless of gender), do use your Android phone in front of your date because that weeds out psychos who would reject you over not owning their preferred product.
I'm 36, and a disabled veteran. I put that in my tinder profile, cause I know most women are going to hate that I'm not maximizing the selling of my life to capitalism.
I've had two chicks match with me just to tell me my profile is shit for including that - Whatevs if you're gonna swerve me for chillin on a pension let's get it out of the way instead of wasting my time until work comes up. 🤷
I just now replied to another comment remaking I had never heard of "curve" being used like this. And there are already variants of it? How long has this been a thing?
Idk man I'm ancient in internet years haha. As for "variants" I'd say it's probably regional, but again hell if I know 😂
Yeah, adopting behaviour to keep something like that in my life doesn't seem like doing myself a favour.
I accept your counter offer
It's pretty much imposible to not use your phone these days
These men dodged a bullet.
Better advice: use an android phone to filter out the reactive dipshits.
This is a feature of android, not a bug. If someone is that shallow and can't consider the possible motivations of using a GASP different phone, they would be a really bad partner.
Exactly, if someone bases their dating on such a stupid reason, imagine what other stupid things they base their life around. Thanks, I'll pass.
Thought you said AOSP for a hot second. Now there's an acronym I haven't seen in a good long time.
If my date can debate AOSP with me... I will feel very privileged indeed!
I think all this tells us is that Katarina here hangs out exclusively with basic bitches
Back in the days, basic bitches would dump you because you didn't drive a german car. Now they judge you on your phone. Times are hard for everyone it seems.
Seems like they are making it easy...show the phone instantly. When they show distaste for a brand, just leave.
If a woman is that shallow and materialistic then the guy is dodging a bullet. Anyhow, it's a weird thing to say since "android phone" could mean literally anything from a basic $100 smartphone all the way up to a $50,000 Vertu diamond and white alligator skin. i.e. it could mean the guy is sensible with his money or even more shallow and materialistic than the girl could ever dream to be.
Not to mention stupid and lacking in business sense.
Could mean that he enjoys a near complete lack of privacy, likes to use a samsung web browser, has his life assfucked by Google, likes shovelware, or wants a phone that only gets updates for 3 years. I’d be suspicious too.
Yeah.... Or it could be the complete opposite of all that.
Android / AOSP comes in many flavours from Swiss cheese give your life away security to locked down more than any apple device could be. IOS only comes in 1 flavour.
Which flavor do you think your average muppet is using?
The same flavor as apple muppets. The only default option.
Something on par with iOS for usability and security. And as virtuous as everyone claims iOS and Apple are for security they really aren't that great. It's clear you've drunk the koolaid so I won't waste my time further.
I just want to be able to access files on my media server without having to pay 10$ for an app.
Huh?
-sent from degoogled lineage os
Lineage is not about providing a google free version of Android. It does not contain google apps, for licensing reasons, probably also to let the user choose. But it does not go further, all the other stuff like captive portal check, agps, dns etc still uses google servers. It's not "degoogled" in any way. Love lineage btw but we need to be aware of what it is and isn't.
Would graphene OS be the answer here then? I've been looking around for my new phone lately as I'm trying to do the same. Would it be possible to de-google lineage OS manually or is it just better to pick another OS? Sorry for the questions but I don't really know where the FOSS android communities are yet so I don't know where to look for the answers.
LMAO iPhones have those problems but like 10x as much, just replace Google&Samsung with Apple. Imagine not being able to download or use anything that isn't approved by big daddy Apple.
How did you make it this far in the fediverse?
I'm 100% okay with being rejected for my Android phone. My dick doesn't fit in women that shallow.
Shit advice. If my date dismisses me because of the phone I use, they are not worth pursuing.
If you are that desperate to get laid that you start tippy-toeing, consider paying a whore. Better for your mental health.
I feel like using it on the first date is actually better, as a form of litmus test to find out of your date is trash (bad).
Does this really matter that much in the US?. Here in the Netherlands about 70% of people had an android phone in 2022. Nobody really cares what you use, as long as you're happy using it.
Apple people are weird, it's best to avoid them when possible.
*American apple people. No one else on earth gives a shit.
It was only six months ago that I learnt they were getting their knickers in a twist for years about the colour of text messages
I had absolutely no fucking clue that text messages had different colours
How. Fuckin. Infantile is that?!?
If you think it’s the color of the bubble that is the problem, you might be the infant
Laugh at the Apple user
I'm not the one paying a grand for a phone that doesn't support basic SMS functions and reduces the quality of MMS for goodness knows what reason but probably money
They may soon be forced to support RSC which will be funny. Especially if they then decide only to support it in Europe.
American Apple user detected
Opinion rejected
You do know that just because you use an Android doesn’t mean you need to speak like one?
I use an iPhone lol
No that is the reason. There is nothing intellectual about the position. It's just moronic.
Yeah, no one claimed it was intellectual, stop putting words in my mouth.
All grandma knows is when we add cousin Linus all the bubbles turn green and the photos look terrible, so she leaves him out and only emails him later if she remembers.
Also, yeah that’s Apple’s fault. Never said it wasn’t.
But to imply that there is, like, bubble racism or something going on, ie it’s purely over aesthetics, and that people are being “infantile” because of it, is ignorant reductance of such magnitude that you basically burned your own strawman down.
Except it’s not the color, it’s the feature set that the colors represent.
You don't know what you're talking about then, since Android has exactly the same feature set as iOS (I mean why wouldn't it) it's just that Apple refuses to use a universal standard that's compatible and as per usual insists on using their own made-up proprietary nonsense, see charging cables, iTunes, the Apple watch, and air tags. So Android phones have to default to SMS to send any messages to iPhones. Between android devices the feature sets are there.
It's called RCS, look it up it's interesting.
Which is exactly one of the reasons I hate Apple. That feature set mismatch isn't done because Android developers can't figure out how to implement those features. It's because Apple is locking out anyone else from using them to encourage this shit so they sell more iPhones. Your choice is as much the reason your chats don't have those features as any Android owner's choice is.
Untrue, Apple fans are a weird breed, not users, just fans.
I remember when the iphone first came out. A guy in my country flew to the US to buy one then came back to brag that he's the first one in the country to have one and he couldn't even use it here.
I hope you would not avoid me for having an iPhone any more than I would avoid you for having an Android phone because judging people for what phone or computer or OS they use is stupid. In my case, I have an iPhone because I got in very early and now have several hundred dollars' worth of apps I don't want to pay for again. Maybe one day I will decide it is worth that sacrifice, but right now, I don't feel like it is. I also don't get the latest and best iPhone. I replaced my XR with a 13 this year.
But to me, you are no better than the hypothetical date in this post who judges the person for not having an iPhone. Why do either of you give a shit? It's a personal choice and it doesn't matter any more than what color your house is painted or what percent of fat you like in your milk.
Judge people for their attitudes and their actions, not what personal devices they decide to spend their money on.
iPhone is dominant in the US, but I can't believe people give enough of a shit about which smartphone someone uses for it to be a dealbreaker in finding a significant other.
Oh they definitely do, especially among young people. They even get bullied over the color of the iMessage text bubble which shows up in different color if the message was sent from a phone other than iPhone.
Well then, this might just be a good way to filter out dipshits.
I blame dating sites to be honest.
For a large portion of women they can have almost anyone at the push of a button and so they start rejecting people for the most absurd things.
I imagine the same could be said for the "chads" on dating sites, but I think they care more about the pump and dump than being superficial about anything because they aren't in it for a relationship.
Then there is me, a literal joke of a human. My phone would probably be the last thing I'd get rejected for as you won't even get that far before swiping "not ever." Lol
I really hope you know better to take shitty Twitter memes at face value. This isn't a thing.
I'm a Finn, not sure what the apple % is here, but I've never met anyone who isn't either a child or atleast slightly retarded that owns one.
About 70% of men are considered below average by women
When you misquote a "study" by an online dating service as gospel truth.
Men, do yourself a favour.
If a girl ghosts you because of the phone you use, she's clearly too shallow to bother with, and it's worth ghosting her back.
Girls, do yourself a favour.
If you've got a problem that a guy uses a 'droid, you may want to reconsider your priorities.
While I agree, one rarely knows the reason they were ghosted. So the fact that it could be your phone and not you can take the sting out.
Yeah, sometimes it's just a bad vibe or something they might think is silly but they can't ignore their instincts. So a woman may tell you it's something like your phone or the restaurant was too cheap, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's true.
I've found there's a big subset of people, myself included when I don't watch for it, who can't help but try to pick apart the reasoning behind "No" if you give them a full explanation.
Explaining your thought process on why you are declining gives them the tools to try to change your mind, to explain to you why your answer was wrong.
If you just want to wash your hands of situation, saying no with little to no explanation stops them from trying to salvage it, to convince you otherwise. I feel like giving a stupid bullshit explanation like "you have an android" may be the same idea.
Exactly this, the polite excuse vs the rational are different. Even when talking to friends you might use the excuse because you don't want to go into details.
Yeah, this isn't a thing for anyone worth dating.
Literally seems like a junior in high school kind of comment, honestly.
Why would even want to be with someone so shallow in the first place ? If they ghost over a phone then good riddance.
Is this a thing in the US? Here the only time i care is when i dont have my charging cable with me and im looking for one (although this should be changing)
It's not
I've literally only ever heard it be a US thing. I don't think it's a everyone thing, but I think it is something that US teenagers care about.
That says everything that needs to be said.
Maybe in some places, idk. I know iPhones are highly sought after in India as a status symbol.
Only on the internet.
Sounds like it's just gonna save me some time. If she's gonna be that basic, I have better things to do.
All my bitches use Signal
So your mom and sister?
Use it right away and dodge a bullet. By the third date she will expect you to buy her $600 wheels for her mac.
Nah. I'm too old for this highschool nonsense.
Sounds like the guys didged a bullet to me.
I had a guy I briefly worked with say he didn't text android phones. I laughed at him and told him that was the lamest thing I've ever heard. I was happy to never have to do anything with him.
"I only interact with others in Apple's walled garden. It makes me feel safer. Who knows what those scary Android users are up to!"
Does anyone know the diagnosis code for her mental disorder?
My usual diagnosis technique is to use adb and escalate to root privileges. I'm not sure how you even penetrate apple.
With a worm
That a good filter for shallow jerks
They curved the perfect man? Is he no longer straight?
Sure he ain't straight anymore, he got curved after all.
This is america.
I personally would pull up with the 12.9" iPad Pro to assert dominance.
I would be there to make you feel inadequate, making calls with my Samsung smart fridge.
As a straight man, I'd date a guy who can casually carry around a fridge rather than some standard, phablet cuck.
Damn right. Put a portable induction burder and a cast iron in that fridge to emphasize weight isn't a constraint, and I know we'll me eatin good in the neighborhood.
Call someone with it
swoons
You actually can if you also have an iPhone.
Guess that’s like those dating profiles that people post online once in a while where the woman demands a height, weight, and income before they even consider talking to a man. At least that’s up front and honest, even if it’s shallow.
I really don’t understand the social cache of an iPhone. It’s overpriced tech. I’d rather someone say right off the bat that they won’t talk to somebody who doesn’t have an iPhone. No need to deal with someone so superficial and interested in wasting money on shit specifically because they want it for showing off how much money they spent.
They just don't want to remember their own phone charger everytime you hangout.
USB-C: soon
Apple had a hand in developing the standard but then didn't like it because it was open source. Ironic they're forced to use it now.
Meanwhile, there are Android phones that cost more than the iPhone Pro Max, whatever it's called.
The difference is those phone bring it. S23 ultra smokes any I phone in terms of usability. I can imagine having an iPhone as my mobile office
iPhones are literally only usable as phones. Trying to do anything complicated with them is a nightmare. Back when I last had an iPhone you literally couldn't even install a swipe keyboard.
Troll much?
That’s a pretty absurd take. The phone portion of the iPhone is probably the least used feature on my device.
No, they don’t let you customize them outside of what apple says you can do (one of the things I hate about apple is how restrictive they are because they assume customers are idiots and apple wants extreme control of its image, and customers like being treated like idiots), but they are pretty much as useful as any smart phone or tablet. There definitely are some caveats to that, but you need to be looking for pretty advanced tools before you run into barriers on iOS devices.
The fact that an app has to be on the Apple app store in order to be installable is what makes them useless to me.
The advanced tools are why android is the only option for a mobile office. I really do wish there was more competition from Apple in the space. They make incredible products, they're just corrupted by an absolutely ridiculous business model of wall gardens.
Apple indoctrinated and hooked them into this mindset early in middle school with iMessage green bullying bubbles
based
i didn't know you could use androids as fuckwit detectors in the USA. Good to know if i'm ever travelling there though....
I mean if your looking to date a high schooler this is probably a factor you'd consider. No one cares about your phone, at most just that you have one to be able to contact you.
Dodged a bullet, I'd say. Anyone who is remotely paying attention to what phone someone's using on a date is....not someone I want to be around.
Tell me youre a mouth breathing moron without telling me youre a mouth breathing moron.
Im equally likely to curb you if you use an iphone. You demonstrate herd mentality and that you dont understand technology. You spent $2k to use instagram and tiktok. Wow.
This goes too far.
Actually this is me and my fiance. She even offered me her old iPhone but I've used one before and it was just not for me, so I said no thank you.
Can't even install NewPipe smh
My partner went from an Evo with a physical keyboard to an iPhone because it took the best pictures at the time, and had a better touchscreen keyboard than nearly any android phone. I played with their iPhone and, as a custom ROM Android physical keyboard lover… I switched as well. It’s just perfect for what I need a phone to do. I never have to reset it, I never have to reformat, it does full image backups with software I don’t have to use my brain to use, it’s just the best. My current phone is five years old and runs faster than most of my friends’.
I’m hella biased now but not because I hate Android (I don’t like google, so I’d be using a custom ROM) but because this thing works perfectly for me.
I’m a Windows and now a Linux user, though I have a 2011 MacBook Pro that’s still kicking I use occasionally, but for phones, I don’t think I could ever go back.
I've been using GrapheneOS for a few years now and I've never had to reset/reformat anything. It just works, aside from the unsupported features of course.
Now my phone do be kinda slow, but the current Pixel phones look very promising in terms of longevity
I’ve heard great things about Graphene! I want to say I was using Lineage? It was ages ago, though! It made my HTC Dream usable, when the default OS was insanely laggy.
I’m full-on iOS from now on, though. After two phones that have been hella fast after five years and just the comfy nature of the OS (not to mention the 10/10 cameras), I love it.
As a teen I got really frustrated with ios because the animations were so long. Navigating the phone was: tap - wait for animation to finish - tap - wait - tap - wait
The most infuriating was rolling through the opened apps, because it would keep rolling and you couldn't swipe up to close an app while it did that.
Back then I got so mad I almost threw my ipod touch at the wall xD
But that was ios 6/7
Abomination, I say!
The other day I got unmatched by a girl on a dating app because she wanted my WhatsApp and not a phone number. We literally had already agreed to go on a first date and then she's like "I don't use my phone much so you need to use WhatsApp" and I'm like "I don't have WhatsApp, here's my cell number: XXX-XXX-XXXX" and then she disappeared from my matches on Hinge lol
A few possible guesses.
I'm leaning towards number 2 if you're outside the US, because I imagine I'd rather set up a new profile than change my phone number. If you're inside the US, I'd bet it's number 3. Whatsapp doesn't seem to be as popular in the US.
100% #3. one of the reasons I've stopped using dating apps is all the scammers. That and it's a literal meat market, where you're constantly having to talk to multiple people because so many just ghost you, and every message you send better be lighthearted, funny, amusing, and flirty or else fuck you.
You get the phone number through WA though
Checkmate, I think I was thinking of instagram.
I'm in Canada but it's not super popular here either. Although she was foreign so she may have had a different take on WA
That's fishy. Unless you are a business WhatsApp needs a cell number and a phone. And I think even then they are needed.
I assume she had a cell phone since we were using Hinge (which AFAIK is only a mobile app). She just said she never used her phone. Which, like.... you're using it right now?
I go through this a lot with matches. I just give them a list of the messengers I use. And then hopefully we can find something in the middle. If they insist on meta based messaging (Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram), I actually just politely decline or more accuratly just stop messaging.
Here nobody actually texts with their phone.
That's it. I'm going to whip it out on the first date.
Men, you've just dodged an ICBM.
Two of us can play this game, if she ain't using linux or some BSD I'm leaving (but not after installing minimal gentoo and leave it without an internet connection on all her devices for her to figure out)
That's great! I wouldn't date a woman who'd dismiss a person based on the phone they use. Saves time, really.
I am so tired of hearing this bs. Android cost just as much, if not more than apple (iPhone 15 cost $800, Google pixel 8 cost $700 and yes that's an Android phone), we have just as good a camera as iPhone, our designs are ever evolving meanwhile iPhone is stuck in the past by at least 4 years, if not more, and the only reason videos look like shit over text is because of the weird formatting the company put in. Please, for the love of all that is holy, explain to us what is so appealing about iphone?
I got a carrier unlocked Pixel 7 a year ago and it was like $500... I will probably get at least 5 years use out of it. There are definitely "premium" Android phones with special form factors or enhanced features. Really to classify every device running Android as the same is ridiculous. It'd be like saying a Volkswagen TDI Golf and a Sherp ATV are the same because they both run diesel engines.
To your point about features... there are vendors taking risks and therefore the newer and better features tend to be available in some Android phone first. I remember walking around turning TVs on and off with my Galaxy S4 to the amazement of Apple normies. Many of us also had wireless charging like 2 years before Apple customers even knew what that was.
Aww, don't get a carrier locked phone!
Being locked to one company like that sounds like a nightmare, for all those 5 years? Not for me, I bought an unlocked pixel 5 a few years ago and mostly use prepaid or an unlimited plan from one of the smaller companies, can't go wrong with the freedom to move around to find the best price and service.
They said carrier unlocked lol
How did I read that as locked? My bad bother
I meant my phone is unlocked. I could move carriers if I want.
I'm surprised you didn't realise that iPhone is status symbol. There was like a map of New York City overlaid with dominant phone types in an area. Richer Manhattan mostly has iPhones while the poorer area like Queens has Android.
Sure, you can get brand new android devices for under $100. You can also get Android devices that cost more then iPhones. It's a made up status symbol. Like airpods. Airpods suck and look like crap hanging out of someone's ear. But because it's Apple it's "cool". It's practically a cult.
Yeah, there are just as expensive Android phones, but it has many different brands with varying reputation. iPhone on the other hand is just one brand and there is an already established image of it as being high class. Precisely as you said, richer folks buy expensive iPhone simply because of the brand, not out of practical reason as to why the item is expensive like labour and material cost. A lot of the times, the prices are made out of sheer subjective perception. Showing off having an iPhone signals to the date "I'm rich, fuck me."
Yeah, I dont buy an android phone because its cheaper, but because it has the features that I want.
(And I dont get locked into some stupid ecosystem)
Did you just use high price like it was a pro and not a con?
No, it's an argument people make that Android is cheap.
He wasn't talking about pros or cons.
If you curve a good person because of the phone they use then THEY dodged a bullet, not the phone elitists
Fuck that, if she doesn't like my neofetch flex she's a -redacted-
This makes me want to migrate back to Android. This is the kind of woman that will be crying in her Tik Toks about being single at 35 in her car at Applebees.
You'll basic
That's the problem Katarina. You're hanging out with stupid people.
It's You are all
I think that follows the rules of contractions by using an apostrophe to signify missing letters.
However, I'm not American, but I thought it was written as "Y'all".
In UK English "you'll" is "you will".
Yeah I was super confused too haha
You'll be happy to see an example of it's common UK usage
I'm also not American. But autocorrect changed it to You'll so I went with it.
Anyway, I think it's perfectly understandable from context.
Nope. You'll is commonly and I'll even say exclusively read as 'you will'.
Y'all is more understandable and fitting. It's a colloquial southern expression with a quaint twang to it to boot that augments the point.
Nope. You'll is commonly and I'll even say exclusively read as 'you will'. As in I've never seen or noticed it used as 'you all'.
Y'all is more understandable and fitting. It's a colloquial southern expression with a quaint twang to it to boot that augments the point.
You are all is mostly shortened to y'all as well. This would be a very informal usage, and y'all should probably not be used in any professional correspondence.
Example: you are all basic would be y'all basic.
I thought "you all" was y'all? "You are all" should be y'all're, right?
Why would you miss the chance to double up on contractions?!
Yeah, "y'all're basic" works, but "y'all basic" works too. It's common to drop the verb in this context, as it's implied.
It common with poorer-educated communities, but it not correct.
"Correct" isn't really a thing with language.
Language is constantly changing and evolving. The rigid rules we are typically taught in grade school are less rigid than we're led to believe--in the end, "correct" language is whatever works to convey information from one person's head into another.
In this case, dropping the verb doesn't impact our ability to understand the meaning. It's called null copula and you probably do the same thing in other contexts (e.g., "You coming?").
This isn't a thing, especially when you can barely tell the difference by looking at the phone alone. It's going to be like 90% phone case, and most phones are practically very little bezel screens so you can't tell from the front.
Met a woman online, chatted a bit and she wanted to Facetime. Dumped me because I didn't have an Apple, couldn't use that app.
Sounds like a win for you.
If you take a second to look at something that appears superfluous like that you start to see the underlying hatred there. No free thought, fall in line square activity and cut out anyone who isn't of the arian race, I mean doesn't have a white phone. Sorry, typo.
(Obviously this comment is not meant to be taken literally, but yes I equated iPhone users to conservatives, while implying Android users would be independent free thinkers)
I use an Android phone because way back when smartphones first started to become available, iPhones were a ludicrously expensive £400 and I didn't have that kind of money so I bought an Android for £30.
I never switched to iPhone because there was never any point. I just don't get the point in buying an iPhone. They're not actually good phones and Apple doesn't know the meaning of the word innovation.
It literally is a thing, and while some cases obscure brand many dont. And no case changes the text bubble.
It's why Apple leaned into the notch. It makes the front recognizable
"I prefer a phone that lasts as long as I do"
Pull out your Nokia 3310.
Suck? Is there an app for that?
I was a long time Android user and switched to an iPhone (work provides me with one) after my OG Pixel finally died. I agree both of them have their weird quirky issues and the iPhone definitely doesn't "just work" like Apple wants you to believe.
always knew that my blackberry will get me laid
Real women don't care. Some of us even prefer others have Android
I got a pine phone is that k?
I might discriminate against a guy with an iPhone. Maybe. But only if he was on it all the time while we were out.
This makes me want one of those rotary cell phones, just to see what happens.
My Lineage OS phone is much more secure than your dumbass iPhone.
curve this waves fairphone
only because pinephones are barely usable and librems insanely priced! Or you can damn well believe I'd have a native linux phone.
Was it this phone: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/the-maga-targeted-freedom-phone-has-a-breathtaking-amount-of-red-flags/
I'd probably walk out if I saw that thing. Not sure they ever sold any though.
Avoid all this nonsense by getting a Palm Pilot.
Are you single? 😳
Hot Syncles in your area.
Nah show your weird tech worship res flags on the first date please
Is this an American thing? I've never heard of this (in Canada).
Women with Android phones are hot af, just sayin'.
Nobody actually does this.
I hope you are right. There are shallow people out there.
Nobody worth your time actually does this.
I've seen a few articles about this topic, and apparently there is a fairly significant difference. It seems so shallow.
https://www.androidauthority.com/study-iphone-dating-matches-3190357/
A lot of news articles copy and paste rage bait like this. They see one "post" on Twitter and suddenly everyone is doing this. The post is usually from a bot.
Surprisingly large number of upvotes on the post
Yeah, rage bait really gets to people :/ remember when every neighbor was sticking razorblades in Halloween candy? Media loves hysteria
My fiancé had a Pixel 3 when we first starting dating, when the 6 was already out by then. Tbh dgaf, he's smart and a phone doesn't equate to a good personality.
This isn't real, but would be a great acid test.
I wouldn't want to have anything to do with a woman that shallow.
My sibling said it cut their dates down by a third as soon as they switched from tinder to texting. They said to use snapchat instead because it was so bad.
Sometimes society collectively starts doing something incredibly dumb and you just have to roll with it if you want to participate.
Image Transcription: Twitter Post
Katarina, @Kkatarinako
Men, do yourself a favor:
If you own an Android phone,
Wait at least three dates before using it in front of her.
I can't even count on my both hands
How many stories I've heard from women
That curved the perfect man just because he had an android phone
Who's 'curving' who?
Probably some sort of slang for rejecting etc.
I believe 'curb' is what she meant. Honestly the ignorance some full grown voting adults display on the Internet is just completely mind bottling.
*Ya'll have no sense of humor; I'm eatin tho. Bone apple tea!
Idk about where you're from but it's been curve OR curb for years at this point. How you can somehow make a statement on ignorance out of your own ignorance is poetic in a way.
I've never heard someone use curve in this way, and I've been on the internet for quite a while.
i use an iPhone and am an active Linux user.
Does it help on dates?
Mentioning Linux on a first date is a real panty-dropper
Did you jailbreak? (I assume jailbreaking is still a thing - it's been a while for me)
Jailbreaking is a thing... if you have an iPhone X or older/an iPhone running an old enough iOS. I have neither.
I thought they could already tell because we're green in text messages or something
It must be kinda weird being a total bimbo
So... anyone want to talk about your dating stories on ![email protected]?
Uuuuh I got married to an Android user as one myself?
what ?
Is that even a thing outside of the US?
This almost feels like a lie women tell about other women so that the person lying seems mature and reasonable in comparison.
Lol I'd look sideways at a dude with an iPhone.
What is "curved the perfect man"?
Dogging bitch bullets.
Huh?
Lots of folk in this thread taking this way too seriously