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Dating and having an android.

TSE said:
I read long ago that women preferred men with iPhones over Androids. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/...r-man-with-iphone-saying-they-look-sexier.htm

Does anyone on MacRumors have any stories or firsthand experiences? Do you think this is still true?

Honestly, I could see women being super attracted to me if I had a Galaxy Fold 7. We could watch Frozen anywhere on that big screen together.
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Have you asked any actual women their thoughts and opinions on this?

That is, real, live women? Thinking, breathing, articulate women?

And that is, also, asking real women their thoughts about this, rather than reading (and quoting, or citing) an article - was it even written by a woman? - penned by a man who thinks he has an insight into how the weird collective called "women" (because, of course, some men seem to be of the opinion that all women think alike about everything all of the time, and are somehow akin to a kind of hive mind, a sort of strange collective) may think, feel, and respond to such things?
 
If it's a top-end Samsung (Fold Z or Galaxy Ultra), it's bearable.

If it's an FE Series or similar, or a brand like Huawei, I'm out the door.
 
tbayrgs said:
Sadly, there’s definitely truth to the preference for iPhones, at least here in the US. My kids are 17, 20, and 22 so I asked if having an iPhone makes a difference in any regard, not just dating. They all sadly said yes, that it’s an issue for their age groups, NOT that it’s an issue for them, though they all did admit that interacting with other iPhone users is easier. My kids hate when I switch over to an Android as my primary because of the ecosystem related problems it causes.

I also just helped a family friend in his 20s move over from Android to an iPhone. I asked why he switched and he said easier to interact with family and friends who mostly use iPhones and sadly, because it’s often an issue with girls in dating. I’ve told my kids that if a person they’re interested in has an issue with specific phone users, run away 😂 —total red flag for other **** they’d eventually encounter.
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Not strictly dating, but having one person on Android in a group does cause issues. Some of them are fixed with RCS, but some not. Case in point, in our family two people have androids, everyone else is iPhone.Two Christmas ago, we took a family photo & my sister sent it to the entire group (she's on an iPhone as am I). I later tried to print out the photo and it was all grainy. Turns out that when you have a mixed group like that, the photo resolution was drastically reduced. She ended up emailing me the photo & it worked fine after that. But any photos you exchange are downscaled. Thankfully this has been fixed with RCS and isn't an issue if everyone is up to date software wise.

Another issue is group chats. I have an extended family group that a couple of people were missing from. It started as three of us chatting and then we added people as the conversation grew. At a certain point, we tried to add someone with an android & it wouldn't work. Then I had to create an entirely new group, with no chat history, and add the person, and that worked until we wanted to add a second android user. At which point I had to create another new group with no chat history.

It's not like the are deal breakers, but they are little things that do make it just a little more painful to interact with Androids.
 
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eyoungren said:
LOL!!!!

My wife and I dated from 1995 to 1997 when we got married. No Androids then. Neither of us owned a cellphone. We didn't even have cellphones until 1999 and for 10 years it was flip phones.

iPhones didn't come into the picture for me until late 2012. For my wife it was late 2013. My wife sees a lot of Samsung phones she likes.

We've been married 28+ years. So take from that whatever you want.
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we are talking about dating nowadays not when the subject items didn't exist.
 
When you get someone’s number and have an iPhone; if you go to txt them and you see it turns blue, it’s a sign that someone isn’t giving you a fake number.
 
mk313 said:
Not strictly dating, but having one person on Android in a group does cause issues. Some of them are fixed with RCS, but some not. Case in point, in our family two people have androids, everyone else is iPhone.Two Christmas ago, we took a family photo & my sister sent it to the entire group (she's on an iPhone as am I). I later tried to print out the photo and it was all grainy. Turns out that when you have a mixed group like that, the photo resolution was drastically reduced. She ended up emailing me the photo & it worked fine after that. But any photos you exchange are downscaled. Thankfully this has been fixed with RCS and isn't an issue if everyone is up to date software wise.

Another issue is group chats. I have an extended family group that a couple of people were missing from. It started as three of us chatting and then we added people as the conversation grew. At a certain point, we tried to add someone with an android & it wouldn't work. Then I had to create an entirely new group, with no chat history, and add the person, and that worked until we wanted to add a second android user. At which point I had to create another new group with no chat history.

It's not like the are deal breakers, but they are little things that do make it just a little more painful to interact with Androids.
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Agree that this becomes less and less of an issue each year, especially with RCS. People can also use platform-agnostic messaging apps, such as WhatsApp (we often do this when traveling overseas). But I understand it's easier to use Messages on iPhone for convenience and security.

I am the sole Android user among our extended family and RCS has alleviated past points of friction. Photos and videos shared in group chats all look great and I can even use the Google Messages web app on my MacBook Pro to respond to texts on my laptop like you normally do with iPhones. The whole green/blue bubbles thing is really becoming a moot point.
 
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I care more about whether or not I have a connection with a lady that develops over time as we get to know each other. I don’t care if she uses Apple or Android. I will say I do not like to see a lady glued to her phone all the time. That would not work for me. Too many meaningful moments are lost because too many people are addicted to their phones.
 
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Black_Mage said:
I heard that women prefer men with iPhones because they are a status symbol and men with less money own Android phones. If true, that a very stupid way of thinking considering how much certain Android phones cost. Now if a privacy-minded woman wants to date a man with an iPhone to keep communications private, that's different. Yes, I know about Signal. I still don't trust Android.
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WhatsApp's private enough.
 
AlaskaMoose said:
WhatsApp's private enough.
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Handed a girl my iPhone Air to get her number. It was the first week it had been released and I had the liquid glass theme. After I handed her my phone she looks up at me and says "You have an android?". I did not call her.
 
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I used Nokia dumb-phones until c. the iPhone 8 era and it turned out to be an unintentional mark of distinction while dating; it was obvious that I wasn't a Luddite as I worked in quantum computing. Although I had finally got an iPhone when I met my wife...
 
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