[HappyTypist]

Yeah but Apple products are so expensive, outside of the USA, most[1] people still use Android simply because their budget for a phone is maybe ~$300-$400 and they don't want a SE with the body from 5 years ago.

[1]: 73% according to StatCounter.

[kaba0]

They have a huge second (or third-forth)-hand market though (which is actually maybe the greenest part of Apple’s operation and one I will applaud them for). Most people would probably be much better off buying a 4-5 years old iphone than buying the latest shitty low-end android phone thrown at them by telecom companies that will be slow even as new and will be literally unusable a year later.

(Though the same disgusting practice is used on laptops where a mid-class 5 years old laptop can easily outclass a “modern” low-end one..)

[theshrike79]

This is directly from Pratchett's "Samuel Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness".

Well-off people can afford the iPhone SE, which will get updates for 5-6 years. Poorer people get the fancy schmancy latest Android device with 42 front cameras that'll stop getting OS updates in a year or two. After 3-4 years it's completely unsupported by anything and bordering on unusable, at this point even the security updates have stopped.

Then they go get a new Android phone and GOTO 10.

[Batman8675309]

>that'll stop getting OS updates in a year or two.

Buy better phones then? Samsung and Google both offer 5 years of updates now.

>after 3-4 years it's completely unsupported by anything and bordering on unusable No they aren't, and we all know you don't have a source to support this.

[PaywallBuster]

the new SE is quite affordable though and it lowers the barrier of entry

[2143]

Sure, but Android phones with better specs (and bigger screens) are cheaper.

People naturally gravitate towards those.

[perryizgr8]

My phone budget is regularly $1000 and I still can't justify buying an IPhone.