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 😔

  • Joris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    It’s 2023. Why use SMS in the first place? The world except the US has moved on years ago.

    • LaughingFox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m in the US and my thought is that it’s easier to use sms because not everyone uses Signal, not everyone uses Telegram, and those types. If they did… One person would prefer Snapchat, the other would prefer Signal… Too many choices. With SMS, it’s just your phone number, and everyone has a phone number.

      Otherwise you gotta get usernames for different people for different apps… It’s too complicated.

      • Joris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s not username based, it’s based on your phone number. I really don’t get what’s holding people in the US back to move on. Because these arguments don’t apply at all.

        I think Snapchat is more a social media app than a messenger by the way.