(unpaywalled version on archive.today: https://archive.ph/03cwZ)

Interesting figure that comes out of the article: 87% of US teens prefer iPhones. Also the explanations given aren’t quite surprising, I guess it’s mostly because of iMessage. Teens will feel like outcasts if they get an Android phone while their friends still use iMessage because of the green bubbles.

It’s actually hilarious how we allowed consumerism to take us this far and that we have now peer pressure over smartphones.

“You’re telling me in 2023, you still have a ’Droid? […] You gotta be at least 50 years old.”

ouch 😔

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    1 year ago

    My entire life I’ve been reading news that only iPhones are cool, yet my social circles don’t care and have never said anything like this. I feel like this is a ‘Hello fellow kids’ type of investigative journalism, that is a secret apple ad.

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    I think that is mostly a US thing, as I see way more Androids in Europe than iPhones. But I could be wrong

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    No one gives a shit which phone you have.

    Also, no one uses the term “droid”.

    This article reads like “fellow kids” nonsense.

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      1 year ago

      I got roasted by a room full of interns for having an android phone last week.

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        Idk what people use. I had two coworkers from another country ask why I don’t have an iPhone?

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          Yeah I could not care less. Seems beyond weird to me. Reminds me of the old video game console arguments in elementary school.

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      No one gives a shit which phone you have.

      In high school, they absolutely do.

      Like, the epitome of the high school experience is social peer pressure about dumb shit.

      And this can have a huge effect on the market in 5 years time.

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        1 year ago

        this must be a us thing, I’d say over half the people have in Ireland have iPhones but nobody cares really, if anything my custom rommed Poco f3 has gotten a bit of interest from a few friends

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          Same. I mean I haven’t been to highschool in a little over ten years, so I can’t say what kids are using these days. But here in Australia, none of us really cares about what phone you have. Though I think most of us were Samsung users.

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            There should probably be a sticky post on every article about anything US related. Something like,

            “DEAR NON-AMERICANS (ESPECIALLY EUROPEANS). THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT AN AMERICAN PHENOMENON. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO COME INTO THIS THREAD AND TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IT. YOU MAY SIMPLY MOVE ON. CHEERS.”

            Seriously, it’s a good 1/4 of the posts.

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    You’re telling me in 2023, kids are using “Droid” again to refer to Android?

    I hadn’t heard that since they literally first came out.

    Also, this isn’t surprising. It was assumed that younger generations, those growing up with PCs, Tablets, Smartphones, etc, would become inherently skilled with their use. Turns out that was entirely false because it also turns out people don’t want to learn what they aren’t interested in. So if you don’t care about anything more than TikTok, Insta, and Snapchat, then you don’t learn anything more than what is necessary to operate them. And Apple makes this very easy in terms of not needing to relearn even an iota between their models. Android cannot say the same.