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‘iMessage plays a pivotal role in the success of the iPhone and contributes significantly to Apple's business is inaccurate.’

If you ask many iPhone users why they use an iPhone rather than an Android. They would tell you iMessage first.

Many iPhone users won’t even consider an Android, only because of iMessage and no other reason.



Not in Europe. Almost nobody uses iMessage here. It's because the marketshare of Apple is much lower in most EU countries.

I'm glad because I use android also.


> If you ask many iPhone users why they use an iPhone rather than an Android. They would tell you iMessage first.

Likewise if you ask many iPhone users they won't tell you iMessage first.

That's the magic and wonder of meaningless anecdotes.


Re-read parent's last sentence.


Parent's arguing that a minority of users have different motives and view it as a Veblen good. Might be true, but what about the rest of the iPhone users ?




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