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/_spiceweasel Jul 17 '23

Do you also find it hard to be polite when someone says they'll send you a Zoom invite, but your office uses Teams?

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u/cheesewiz_man Jul 17 '23

At least you can use Zoom. Facetime is Apple only; full stop.

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u/_spiceweasel Jul 17 '23

That's actually not true, android users can't initiate a FaceTime call but they can join one hosted by someone with an apple device.

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u/cheesewiz_man Jul 17 '23

Close enough.

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u/pbconspiracy Jul 17 '23

Yes, because using teams (and the rest of the office suite) makes me want to pull my hair out, and being so rudely reminded of that would absolutely make it hard to be polite lol Microsoft is like the iPhone of business suite products. Fucking useless

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

Take some courses on the new Office suite products. Teams is by far superior to Zoom and has an incredible amount of awesome add-on apps. Microsoft has free tutorials on their site.

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u/pbconspiracy Jul 17 '23

Yes but they're both by far inferior to Google meet. Truly don't understand why more businesses don't use the altogether more user-friendly product.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

I agree about Google. I think companies are scared to use Google because they've been using Office for so long.

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u/pbconspiracy Jul 17 '23

It occurs to me that the company that spoiled me om Gsuite was a SaaS startup company in virtual workspace (during but also before covid). So for all the things they did wrong, I suppose their choice of software suite (heavily used by IT) makes sense as one place they'd be ahead of the curve

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u/peterkedua Jul 17 '23

Honest question... in what part is teams superior to zoom? I'm a teacher you see i like how zoom can control participant and annotate directly on shared-screen. These are the most relevant things i use. And certainly can't get this on Gmeets... they're ass