Gen Z and millennials have become the unlikely heroes to revive the slow-fading phone market in the US, according to Counterpoint Research.
  • Bonehead@kbin.social
    82·
    2 年前

    They weren’t entirely wrong. The numbers don’t lie. They just don’t say what the author claims it does.

    • coffinwood@feddit.deEnglish
      47·
      2 年前

      It’s directly in the headline: Gen Z is ditching the iPhone. That’s incorrect in two ways: A) it’s at best one in fifty people buying aforementioned feature phones and B) they don’t even know if all buyers replace their existing phone or buy it as an additional handset.

      • guyrocket@kbin.social
        11·
        2 年前

        I have both a smartphone and a flip phone.

        I kept both because the flip phone lets me make phone calls from my basement and many other places that the smartphone cannot.

        I have never met anyone else with this setup.

        • severien@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          2 年前

          the flip phone lets me make phone calls from my basement and many other places that the smartphone cannot.

          Why? The smartphone supports everything the flip phone does. Honest question.

            • severien@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 年前

              Doesn’t seem very likely to me given that cheap feature phones likely use cheap older parts while flagship smartphones state of the art components.

          • guyrocket@kbin.social
            4·
            2 年前

            Yes, I could. But that allows the phone company to be lazy about coverage and building their network. The primary reason I pay a monthly cell phone bill is for a good network.

            It also gets into security issues that are different from cellular network use.

            And what if my internet is down and I have an emergency?

      • ChrisLicht@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        2 年前

        I had a biz partner who is a centimillionaire. He has an iPhone for data, and a flip-phone for calls.