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 😔

  • bjornp_@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Apple is willfully hampering the ability to intercommunicate between iPhones and Androids

    In what way exactly? All the messaging apps I use work fine. I even have the same Signal account logged in through both my Android phone and my iPad.

    Nobody I know actually uses iMessage either. It’s a complete non-issue as SMS is quite an outdated technology.

    • coheedcollapse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Come back to me after convincing a group of non tech-savvy iPhone-using friends or family to use literally anything but whatever the default messaging app is available on their phone or whatever they’re already used to.

      • bjornp_@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        My grandma uses WhatsApp. The only reason I’ve ever used SMS is to receive a verification code