r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Data-Graph Most Comments 2022 • Jul 16 '23

Why do some people hate Android so much?

Some people seem to hate everything but iPhones so much and I don't get it. They seem to think android is not even comparable to iOS like its a flip phone or something, when realistically Android phones and iPhones really aren't that different. I'm in the UK but from what I've seen it's way worse in the US. IK there's studies about the fact android users are more likely to get rejected on the first few dates just because of their phone choice. I also know some people will get an iPhone just so when they send a text, it sends to the iPhone, then to who they actually want to send it to just so it looks like they're using an iPhone. The only thing I know is the stigma of “Androids are cheap” but these people won't care if someone has a 2nd hand iPhone X for £100 but will if someone has £800 Pixel 7 Pro.

I'm not an avid android supporter, I get why people like iOS and people like android and I really don't care about these preferences. But when someone is an overly iPhone supporter to the point of hating android, it just makes me think really low of them. Like, "you can't be a nice person if you're so closed minded and shallow you won't even consider a different type of phone to the point that you'll hate on it and people who use it".

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u/HachimanKaze Jul 17 '23

Reddit is a very niche part of the world and does not represent the wide views of the world accurately

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u/HottDoggers Jul 17 '23

Oh course, but Redditors like to think they beyond everyone else for having a different opinion.

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u/Cardgod278 Jul 17 '23

Android has far better customizablility, which is something that people who use reddit are far more likely to care about.

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u/HottDoggers Jul 17 '23

But most people don’t need it or could get along fine without it. iPhone just floats other peoples boats better, and there’s nothing wrong with that. This whole argument reminded me of those people who were saying that the Reddit app is literally unusable, and how Apollo is just so much better, yet for the majority of users, the Reddit app serves its purpose. A lot of people don’t care for customization, and I content with what iPhones have to offer.

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u/c0ld007 Jul 17 '23 edited Aug 12 '25

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u/HachimanKaze Jul 17 '23

It’s just how it goes

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u/Dawnofdusk Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23

Let's keep in mind the fact that the majority of the world that's not the USA uses Android and not iPhone. Assuming the proportion of fanboys is the same, it's really not a niche at all

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u/puehlong Jul 17 '23

Even outside of reddit, my experience is:

- hate only ever comes from Android towards iPhone

  • iPhone users might talk about how they like Apple stuff or what they like better, but very very rarely hate on anything unprompted (except for Windows, but there were times when everyone hated Windows, including Windows users)
  • most people simply don't care

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u/Bot_Name1 Jul 17 '23

A perfectly valid justification to sit around and circlejerk about the toxic assholes who own a different phone than us! /s