‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones
‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones
A recent survey of teens found that 87% have iPhones, and don’t plan to switch. They have their reasons.
(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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Look, I'm cheap, and I'm not swayed by Apple's smug, trendy marketing horse shit. Remember "I'm an Apple, and I'm a PC?" Who didn't want to punch that smug Apple guy in the face?
But sure, whatever. You fetuses go ahead and cling to Apple because you're told to do it with slick ad campaigns. We all fell for it too... once. Then we realized we were paying for those ads with the Apple tax, and we found better things to do with our money than subsidize paranoid Orwell fantasies and thirty second music videos.
Never owned an apple product. And never will. It's total rubbish.
It's not just fetuses and we fell for it more than once. Sega vs Nintendo, Sony vs Microsoft, any car manufacturer vs any other.
What this is, is class warfare, and a chance to build class consciousness.