Consumer fetishism

With the amount of ads and influence put on kids these days, it's really not surprising at all. They aren't even making the choice themselves.

Apple just has good marketing honestly, growing up it was pretty rare to give out your number so I message wasn't really a thing. The main driver honestly is marketing. Androids are seen as cheap, iphones are seen as rich. The UI is sleek and magical. The ecosystem just works, and services like airdrop are ubiquitous. I fear we might see all major flagship players step out of the US as gen z gets older and android being branded in the US as exclusively budget and IOT.

I own a Pixel 7 but I hate that you always have to reach a compromise on something. This time it's the SOC. The Tensor G2 is a toaster. I looked for the Galaxy S23 and it has camera issues with shutter lag.

That's when you give them a flip phone then see how they feel about the android when they earn it back.

I don't think that's applicable to Germany for example. We have plenty Android-Phones here and ppl aren't using iMesage really.

Nothing makes me cringe more than kids who buy an Apple device and pretend they own it.

iToddlers are liked by kids. News at 11

My stepson announced that he was going to save money to buy an iphone, and these are incredibly expensive in Brazil. We don't even have that blue/green bubble nonsense here, because everyone uses whatsapp and teens use discord or twitch or whatever when they're on their pcs.

Anyway, we give him a 50bucks allowance per month, so I said ok, good luck saving your lunch money for two years to get one if you want it so badly.