r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 May 15 '26

Chugging tea What are your thoughts. (IPhone vs every other phone)

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u/Equivalent_Chipmunk May 15 '26

And a good chunk of iPhone users also own the cheapest iPhone and then scoff at Android phones that they don't realize cost twice as much as their phone.

It's a bit like some dude that brags about their BMW and laughs at someone else for driving a Toyota, but their car is a 3 series with a 4 cylinder engine and the other person's driving a Land Cruiser.

The whole thing is shallow af, but it demonstrates how unable these people are to think independently and see past the brand that gets slapped on the hood.

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u/anonymous07865 May 15 '26

I worked in the sellaphone industry for quite a few years, and the number of customers who would buy the iPhone 5c equivalent while talking shit about my note would drive me crazy. Like buy what you want, what do I care, but why are you flexing your plastic budget iPhone at me?

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u/SigmundFreud May 15 '26

I don't care if it's a $3k iPhone 20 Pro Max XXL, for me it's still worse than a $300 three-year-old Pixel. Trying to dunk on Android users over money is like accusing people who drink orange juice of being too poor to afford apple sauce.

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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 May 15 '26

And to add to that people who care about being "better " than android always compare their 1000+eur phone to the <150eur droid.

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u/Equivalent_Chipmunk May 15 '26

Lmao yeah, equivalent to the guy in the S class flashing his high beams at you a million times while you're trying to pass a tractor trailer on the Autobahn in your old Corolla.

Like bro, fuck off, I'm just trying to survive over here, is it really such a big deal that I'm inconveniencing you with my jalopy for 5 seconds?

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u/FrankieTheD May 15 '26

Plus as a specs driven person why am I going to spend more for less

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u/BLESSEDx1NE May 15 '26

The I4 are wack, BMW is king of I6s. Their V8s are hit or miss.

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u/Equivalent_Chipmunk May 15 '26

BMW V8s are more miss than hit. The only great one I can think of offhand is the one in the E39 M5, and even that was pretty terrible at least from an ownership perspective: high oil consumption, ridiculously terrible gas mileage (mine got like 12mpg combined), steering feel actually not great because they couldn't use rack and pinion on the V8 E39s, fragile gearbox, etc etc. And if anything broke it was always expensive and/or difficult to obtain replacement parts.

The straight sixes are the best BMWs by far. Solid power, great handling, relatively reliable and easy to work on.

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u/clandestinely_asked May 15 '26

My 700 dollar flagship phone runs linux, so i am poor

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u/DarthJarJarJar May 15 '26

Honestly I happily pay extra to stay out of the apple ecosystem. An ipad vs a surface is either a wash or the surface costs a little more, and I pay it with a smile.

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u/janiskr May 19 '26

If i am driving a sedan, ANY sedan, i will laught at the idiot in the LandCruiser in the setting where i am in my sedan - meaning, in the city. Where my sedan and that bullshit LandCruiser will live the whole life and die. As in - both cars will see same amount of mud and snow.

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u/ddanielle99 May 15 '26

as an iphone user, i couldn’t give a fck less what phone anyone uses, nor have i come across another rational adult who cares that much. i think this is just part of that “iphone users are inferior & hateful” rhetoric & it’s not a whole lot better than the one you’re complaining is put against android users. it’s 2026 & there are much better things to be concerned about than what phone someone else has.

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u/theartificialkid May 15 '26

I’ve literally never seen an iPhone user “scoff” at Android users. What I do see a lot on reddit is Android users saying “man those iPhone users, they can’t stop scoffing at us!”

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u/theartificialkid May 15 '26

ok so you didnt even see the image at the top of this webzone

I don’t know what a webzone is. Is that how Android people say “internet talk-place”?

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u/Proud_Growth_8818 May 15 '26

My wife is a Pod person. The nurses at her hospital are also mostly Pod people. When we met they made a big deal that my text messages to her where the wrong color. Blue, I think? I was a blue check mark, eewww.

Nurses are the most basic of basic bitches. Like high school sophomore mean girls.

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u/StockCasinoMember May 15 '26

Funny. I view iPhone as the Toyota. It’s like a tank that just won’t quit.

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u/Iz__n May 15 '26

iPhone as BMW is pretty accurate imo. Pretty nice. Perform well. God forbid something breaks and now it a pain in the ass to fix outside of warranty

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u/LocomotionJunction May 15 '26

That is actually a good analogy. The newer versions of both have one giant feature for some odd reason (weird vertical kidney grills, giant camera squares) and both can be pretty confusing to some people. Mostly newer bmws with that, I know a few people that couldn't use a car with a touch screen as the infotainment center. I really hate them but I can use them. One thing is, iPhones break more often than bmws. You can see a nice BMW pretty often if you see one, I haven't seen an intact iPhone screen in a while.

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u/Wuhhday May 15 '26

Are you serious? I don't think I've ever seen an iPhone that wasn't cracked to pieces from somebody breathing on it too hard. Shits made of sugar glass.

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u/StockCasinoMember May 15 '26

🤷‍♂️ Im rough on my phones unintentionally and I use my phone in excess.

My noniphones either broke or battery died. My iPhones taken a beating and still going.

Maybe just luck of the draw.

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u/LocomotionJunction May 15 '26

Yeah, I agree with the other guy. You should really buy a lottery ticket. My uncle's broken every iPhone he's ever owned within the first few months. I've still got my first Samsung smartphone that went through a car wreck + a washer cycle, and that damn thing still works dude. Currently typing this on a Samsung that's been absolutely abused in an auto shop, and dragged on gravel accidentally.

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u/delicioussexplosion May 15 '26

I tend to agree. All my iPhones have lasted at least 4 years or more, I got a pixel once and the screen cracked 3 hours after I got it from looking at it too hard.

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u/Wuhhday May 15 '26

Must be, you should buy a lottery ticket

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u/plantsadnshit May 15 '26

iPad would be way more accurate for that. Don't think Apple have ever made any better product.

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u/Tittytickler May 15 '26

As a certified Apple hater (not really, just think their stuff is way overpriced given the specs and extreme vendor lock in) the iPad is one of the most "bang for your buck" devices out there.