alt Hacker NewsConsumers don't necessarily want iPhone. They don't want to be excluded from iMessage, which is a completely different motivation.
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bdavbdav • today at 6:31 AM
US centric view, which I believe to be wrong. UK is predominantly WhatsApp, and the bulk of handsets sold are still iPhones.
Income is a much tighter correlation than messaging platform. Rack up those market shares by phone value and the scales tip even harder.
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russelldjimmy • today at 6:29 AM
No one uses iMessage in my country. Yet iPhones are sought after. Some of us just really like iPhones for the experience - not everything is a conspiracy. People can have different tastes and are more free to choose than people on HN like to believe.
Yeah, that just doesn't pass the simplest sniff tests. I barely use iMessage, and yet I'm an iPhone user. Basically everyone around me is the same.