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		damnyou on Jan 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut loc... Correct, the US is the richest country on earth. In the rest of the world Androids are more popular. I guarantee you that if most of your friends have iPhones, your friends' incomes are probably on the higher end, statistically. Don't those payment plans require good credit, anyway? A lot of my friends don't have that.

scarface74 on Jan 14, 2020 [–]

Not “good credit” just “not horrible credit”.

But, after you have been a customer for awhile for a carrier, they take your on time bill payments with them into account - at least with T-mobile.

https://www.t-mobile.com/customers/smartphone-equality-progr...

damnyou on Jan 14, 2020 | [–]

Many of my less well-off friends have horrible credit, unfortunately.

Good for T-Mobile.

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