I actually know people who operate like this. My old neighbor was a paycheck to paycheck kind of guy who’d always instantly spend all of his money on any trash you can think of. One day he came home with 3(!) Michael Bay Turtle movie collectors editions because they were on sale (“fantastic value!”) and by the end of the month he didn’t have money for food. That’s how bad his financial decisions were.
Anyway instead of proper budgeting he’d come up with these horrible ways to make sure he’d have money “stashed away”. E.g. he’d prepay 100 bucks per month for his electricity and then get half of it back after a year. That was his way of saving up money. Funniest thing about this was him calling the utility company and explaining to them why he wanted the highest possible monthly payment despite using so little power. They had some trouble understanding his investment strategy.
Another classic was buying expensive things and selling them for half of what he payed. That’s pretty much what the picture implies. If you buy a $200 android phone and spend $1000 on useless crap then you won’t be able to sell your phone to pay the bills. The $1200 iphone on the other hand will get you $600 in an emergency. It’s the idiot’s piggy bank.
It reminds me of my ex’s math. She’d use her credit card to buy something useless for “us” that we didn’t need. Then ask me to pay her back for half of it, since it was for us, in cash. At the end of the month, she’d ask me for help paying her credit cards. Finally, she’d eBay whatever it was she bought because “we weren’t really using it”, and keep the money.
Reminds me of people purposefully paying too high income taxt. “It’s a nice bonus when I get it back”. I guess some sort of reasoning is that you’re then forced to put some money away and can’t spend it, but those same people will also take high-interest loans that’ll cost them dearly because now they don’t have that money at hand. And this is an actual person I know who has done this.
If it’s real then the dummy who wrote this just said dinner as an example - the only way it makes sense is “my old phone was crap, I couldn’t perform basic transactions with it, so I got rid of it and with me new iPhone I no longer have issues when making purchases”
trying to sell the higher ‘resale’ or ‘trade in’ value of the phone… like a five-year-old 64gb se has a trade in ‘value’ at bby that’s 10x higher than that of a lower-mid android of the same age and storage. that’s 40-50usd vs 3-5usd (the phone that can’t even ‘pay for lunch’). but forgetting completely that you pay several hundred more for the handset to get that ‘extra’ 40 bucks five years later.
To be fair if you take a flagship Android that cost similarly to what the pro iPhone cost the iPhone resell value is still usually way higher as the years go on even though the initial prices were the same.
Not entirely sure if this is the case, but I’ve started using AI to generate my ad text. The way it works is my campaign is optimized for app downloads, so it tries different texts (based around what my app is about) and sees which ones lead to the most downloads - i.e. it self optimizes.
Congrats, you setup an algorithm that aims to trigger real people to behave a certain way by tricking their subconscious trough language.
You might call this business, i call it enshitification.
When people need an app they are able to look for a fit and compare optioned tailored to their needs, ideally using factual neutral information about similar apps.
Customers who are lured into clicking based purely on a ad are not making a deliberate decision for themselves and while you are not responsible for their actions you are preying on it.
To me, and this is an opinion: All software should Be open source and free, all software should exist to the benefit of all people and preferably be well documented, and public advertisement of any kind should be contained within very strict limits.
If this is real, what message are they actually trying to send? Surely it’s a shit post
I actually know people who operate like this. My old neighbor was a paycheck to paycheck kind of guy who’d always instantly spend all of his money on any trash you can think of. One day he came home with 3(!) Michael Bay Turtle movie collectors editions because they were on sale (“fantastic value!”) and by the end of the month he didn’t have money for food. That’s how bad his financial decisions were.
Anyway instead of proper budgeting he’d come up with these horrible ways to make sure he’d have money “stashed away”. E.g. he’d prepay 100 bucks per month for his electricity and then get half of it back after a year. That was his way of saving up money. Funniest thing about this was him calling the utility company and explaining to them why he wanted the highest possible monthly payment despite using so little power. They had some trouble understanding his investment strategy. Another classic was buying expensive things and selling them for half of what he payed. That’s pretty much what the picture implies. If you buy a $200 android phone and spend $1000 on useless crap then you won’t be able to sell your phone to pay the bills. The $1200 iphone on the other hand will get you $600 in an emergency. It’s the idiot’s piggy bank.
And in the meantime you have a $1200 iPhone! Genius!
It reminds me of my ex’s math. She’d use her credit card to buy something useless for “us” that we didn’t need. Then ask me to pay her back for half of it, since it was for us, in cash. At the end of the month, she’d ask me for help paying her credit cards. Finally, she’d eBay whatever it was she bought because “we weren’t really using it”, and keep the money.
Reminds me of people purposefully paying too high income taxt. “It’s a nice bonus when I get it back”. I guess some sort of reasoning is that you’re then forced to put some money away and can’t spend it, but those same people will also take high-interest loans that’ll cost them dearly because now they don’t have that money at hand. And this is an actual person I know who has done this.
Crazy logic.
If it’s real then the dummy who wrote this just said dinner as an example - the only way it makes sense is “my old phone was crap, I couldn’t perform basic transactions with it, so I got rid of it and with me new iPhone I no longer have issues when making purchases”
trying to sell the higher ‘resale’ or ‘trade in’ value of the phone… like a five-year-old 64gb se has a trade in ‘value’ at bby that’s 10x higher than that of a lower-mid android of the same age and storage. that’s 40-50usd vs 3-5usd (the phone that can’t even ‘pay for lunch’). but forgetting completely that you pay several hundred more for the handset to get that ‘extra’ 40 bucks five years later.
To be fair if you take a flagship Android that cost similarly to what the pro iPhone cost the iPhone resell value is still usually way higher as the years go on even though the initial prices were the same.
But does it really matter?
You can sell used iPhones for hundreds of euros where I’m from, even 4-5 year old models.
With that in mind, the euros per month of ownership might be about equivalent or in favour of Apple when comparing to Android flagships.
Of course, flagships never have good value propositions in the first place.
iphone holds its value better I think is what they’re going for
Not entirely sure if this is the case, but I’ve started using AI to generate my ad text. The way it works is my campaign is optimized for app downloads, so it tries different texts (based around what my app is about) and sees which ones lead to the most downloads - i.e. it self optimizes.
Predatory
Gross.
Congrats, you setup an algorithm that aims to trigger real people to behave a certain way by tricking their subconscious trough language.
You might call this business, i call it enshitification.
When people need an app they are able to look for a fit and compare optioned tailored to their needs, ideally using factual neutral information about similar apps.
Customers who are lured into clicking based purely on a ad are not making a deliberate decision for themselves and while you are not responsible for their actions you are preying on it.
To me, and this is an opinion: All software should Be open source and free, all software should exist to the benefit of all people and preferably be well documented, and public advertisement of any kind should be contained within very strict limits.
Not even Jorjor Well saw this coming
I used to work with two people, one called Georgia and the other with the surname Welle.
We tried everything to hook those two up but it didn’t work out.