Fair point — though I didn’t mean it like that. It’s not about “complimenting” anyone as if they need validation — more just about supporting people who got unnecessary flak for their choice. Tech discussions can get weirdly tribal sometimes, so I thought I’d balance it out a bit. 😉
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iPhone Air To All the iPhone Air Owners — You Have My Respect
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Seriously, the more I read this forum and see people blowing every little thing out of proportion, turning mountains into molehills, buying and returning, and rebuying phones, multiple times, agonizing obsessively over the most minute insignificant things, and turning phones into trivial, imagined social battles is nuts. One person wrote a thread called, Are you embarassed to use the iPhone Air in Public. This OP writes, You have my respect for using the Air!? The more I realize this looks less like people who like phones and starts to more likely resemble mental illness. People really need to get some perspective.
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If people could see their behaviour from the outside like others do then they would definitely say they had mental health issues, and they would be right!
It’s not a heathy way to live.
100%
One of the best "gifts" Apple ever gave me was to stop making iPhones I love on an annual release cycle. Once the size started bumping up (with the 6) and then the SE1 came out, I was off the treadmill as the SE1 was "the one!" for me. I didn't move on until mostly forced to by some App compatibility, to my 13 Mini, which I now plan to ride into the ground.
(of course, now they've bailed on smaller/normal sized phones totally, so it's not great).
What I perceive as an Air owner is opposite from the Pro / Pro Max group.
Air owners are very secure with our decision because it meets *our* needs.
I see the Pro / Pro Max folks are the insecure group - bashing the Air because it's missing this or missing that on the Air compared to their choice.
Same as buying a base or lower price point model car and getting the very basic features for someone who needs to get from point A to point B.
Then those that have to get the fully loaded, most expensive trimmed, all optioned, custom this and that car and still going from point A to point B.
Always amazes me how some people (and there are a lot of them) seem to turn anything and everything into a religion.
I could not compromise battery, and thin phones don't work for me, so I might go Pro
“Then Tim said, ‘Let it be thin’; and it was thin. And Tim saw the thinness, that it was good; and Tim divided the thin from the thick. Tim called the thin Air, and the thickness He called Pro.”
Love my air, can’t imagine using anything else now and hope they continue with new releases!
I've seen a lot of "newbie" posts over the last few days that looks suspiciously like AI, and my ignore list is growing rapidly.
It makes me wonder if forums are totally doomed, barring some easy/accurate way for forum software to weed this stuff out.
The larger problem becomes people who are too lazy to articulate their own thoughts and devolve down to asking an LLM to do it .. and then copy/paste it in, sometimes only as part of their post.
I have no idea how you deal with this as a forum operator.
Related to above.
Companies must be LOVING this.
The ability to mostly transparently astroturf all over forums and places of discourse and dialogue is insanely lucrative for them.
I'm noticing this right now in Chevy Bolt conversations on Reddit. An incredibly suspcious amount of people "don't get the fuss about Android Auto & CarPlay" and think "the integrated offering from GM is better in every way!" -- especially with "support for live services, real time updates and connected offerings!".
Companies must be LOVING this.
The ability to mostly transparently astroturf all over forums and places of discourse and dialogue is insanely lucrative for them.
I'm noticing this right now in Chevy Bolt conversations on Reddit. An incredibly suspcious amount of people "don't get the fuss about Android Auto & CarPlay" and think "the integrated offering from GM is better in every way!" -- especially with "support for live services, real time updates and connected offerings!".
Honestly much of the Internet looks like mental illness these days. That’s because it legitimately causes it
Problem there is everyone's bailed on the smaller phones. I think the Galaxy S10e might have been the last smallish phone on the Android side and that's iPhone X size than mini.
It’s just tech, nothing to do with respect whatsoever. That’s not how someone earns respect.
This thread is weird.
This thread is weird.
I don’t need somebody to justify my purchases, how utterly ridiculous. Another silly thread like that “R u embarrassed” one
Btw, I come here to see how people like it, and issues, etc. This is an unusual phone as I’m going caseless, and its location ‘on me’ has changed. So cool. Still curious about any issues.
Btw, I come here to see how people like it, and issues, etc. This is an unusual phone as I’m going caseless, and its location ‘on me’ has changed. So cool. Still curious about any issues.
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Are you an Air owner? If not, you don't have the OP's respect.
I could care less who has a air phone the only thing I dislike about is the single speaker lol I have come to enjoy having two speakers on my phone😁
Yeah, it’s always something ( always)
I haven’t missed the sound of a Max, but I’ll take the trade off
If you value handfeel and thinness more than all, get the Air. If you value battery and cameras, get the Pro. If you value monetary value, get the 17. It's really easy.
I had the Air and absolutely loved it until I watched TV in bed and tried to take my first close up photo. Then I realized I might need to change. Since I use my phone for reading all my books, watching TV, and am relegated to the photo-taker on vacations, I gotta bite the bullet and stick with a heavy phone again.
Try not to tie your identity to your choice in iPhone.
I had the Air and absolutely loved it until I watched TV in bed and tried to take my first close up photo. Then I realized I might need to change. Since I use my phone for reading all my books, watching TV, and am relegated to the photo-taker on vacations, I gotta bite the bullet and stick with a heavy phone again.
Try not to tie your identity to your choice in iPhone.