(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 😔
another thing with the iPhone/Apple ecosystem is everyone having roughly the same experience for a given generation… the android platform is a wild west of varying degrees of hardware performance and capabilities. take a cheap ass carrier branded phone vs. an S23 ultra… both are running the same underlying android OS, but the carrier phone is going to be a barebones platform barely capable of running anything other than the OS… and then you factor in how well the manufacturer integrated their crapware on top of android, people willingly pay the Apple tax for a reason. personally, i’d never give up my s23u for an iPhone, but i’m also not Apple’s target demographic.
Yeah, this is my takeaway as well. I’m willing to bet teens aren’t opposed to Android itself, but rather “oh your mom only got you the $200 budget phone lol”