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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

(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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[-] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

This is what happens when you succumb to techno AIDS.

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[-] silvercove@lemdro.id 30 points 1 year ago
[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Or are just being given slow and aweful low end android phones. IPhones will be faster and better in every way.

It was the same with laptops 10-15 years ago, people were comparing cheap 400USD laptops with 1500USD macbooks and saying thise are better without ever seeing 1000+ USD PC.

It is about money/status and performance too.

I can freely laugh at a colleague with new 1.5k USD macbook with soldered 8GB ram + soldered 512GB SSD while using my three year old thinkpad with 48GB of RAM and 2TB SSD costing the same with upgrades.

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[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Perfect timing for this ~~Apple propaganda~~ "journalism," as Apple is releasing another phone and have openly stated they don't expect it to sell well.

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[-] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Imagine taking the wall street journal seriously

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 year ago

Welp, I am the only one in class using Android, so I get some laughs. If I am going to drop Android, it will be for full fledged GNU+Linux phone. Postmarket OS already officially supports Android apps via Waydroid.

I don't see how I'd use something as restrictive as iOS. Not even being able to sideload apps without jailbreak, so Apple decides what you install.
There's so much stuff I'd miss, I'd feel like using a modern day feature phone.
How is that cool?

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[-] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk, these seem to be first world country problems

In rapidly and non rapidly developing countries, we have brands like realmeme(realme), tecnologically braindead(tecno) and xiaomeme(xiaomi) take over

iCrytoSleeps(iPhones) are alright but people here like to be conservative with their money. Ironically they look at good specs since mobile gaming is all the rage here

I personally daily drive a oneplus one, to spite people like the ones mentioned in the post

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[-] calzone_gigante@lemmy.eco.br 27 points 1 year ago

Marketing, and the fact that phones are now super boring, everything is web based, there's no more cool apps, everything is just a frontend for some web service, or a damn webview.

The historical feature gap between Androids and iPhones is mostly gone, and since the tech doesn't matter anymore, marketing can go a long way.

The article is also very us centric, in places where cost matters more, the iPhone is seen as a status symbol, just like every other thing that costs a lot for no reason.

I dont really like android. Symbian and even windows phones performed better on inferior hardware. Their weird lifecycle seems to me wasteful and blurs the line between what's running or not. It only became stable once hardware got way better. It's a shame that every other option failed. because the only thing worse than android is an apple controlled environment.

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[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 26 points 1 year ago

Teens will feel like outcasts if they get an Android phone while their friends still use iMessage because of the green bubbles.

So I've heard this sentiment a lot, and at one point it certainly was true, but are teens still texting these days at all? I swear almost everyone moved to instant messaging over Snapchat, Instagram, Discord, etc.

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[-] Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Great clickbait title from them. This is a US / NA specific issue and thankfully isn't fully reflective everywhere else

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[-] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 25 points 1 year ago

Mom, I'm tired of having software choices! I need to be locked into an ecosystem immediately!!

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[-] pixelscience@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

I love ruining your group chats!

[-] Bobert@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] norav@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah great, so Apple won. They have a gynormus mass of imbeciles addicted to a logo. Good to know.

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[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

They must love having to ask their parents for a new phone every couple of years because they can't install apps due to their phone being out of date

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[-] rony4102@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago

This literally translates how dumb kids become by just abstracting everything from them, having little to no digital literacy, having little to no customisation, hands on. Fuck you apple, Fuck you iToddlers

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