Comment by spideymans
6 years ago
They care because the green bubbles indicate a severely impaired user experience. For example, multimedia may not work, and even if it does, its typically very poor quality.
6 years ago
They care because the green bubbles indicate a severely impaired user experience. For example, multimedia may not work, and even if it does, its typically very poor quality.
HS senior here. Maybe a little, but it's mostly status/class. It's the twenty-first century equivalent of wearing expensive clothes to school.
I don't see how it conveys status when used iPhones are cheap, and brand new ones start at $400 now. My lowest paid hourly employees all have iPhones, even the ones who don't speak English.
Status signaling might be a thing in certain circles (middle school and high school), but I think it's simpler than that. It's about being in or out.
People might have gravitated towards iPhones for status signaling in their youth, and by association and inertia, their inner circle uses iPhones. now, as adults, any person coming into the circle needs to conform to the group or be seen as clueless.
And in the US, all of the major carriers have 0% interest payment plans. The cost difference is basically nothing over 2 years.
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Nobody's paying street price for an iphone in that demo. They get it with their contract
You are talking about people with jobs.
But iPhones sell themselves as expensive, and that's really what lingers in people's consciousness, doesn't it?
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