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 😔

  • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    946·
    1 year ago

    No one gives a shit which phone you have.

    In high school, they absolutely do.

    Like, the epitome of the high school experience is social peer pressure about dumb shit.

    And this can have a huge effect on the market in 5 years time.

    • notasandwich1948@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      272·
      1 year ago

      this must be a us thing, I’d say over half the people have in Ireland have iPhones but nobody cares really, if anything my custom rommed Poco f3 has gotten a bit of interest from a few friends

      • landsharkkidd@aussie.zoneEnglish
        72·
        1 year ago

        Same. I mean I haven’t been to highschool in a little over ten years, so I can’t say what kids are using these days. But here in Australia, none of us really cares about what phone you have. Though I think most of us were Samsung users.

        • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          36·
          1 year ago

          There should probably be a sticky post on every article about anything US related. Something like,

          “DEAR NON-AMERICANS (ESPECIALLY EUROPEANS). THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT AN AMERICAN PHENOMENON. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO COME INTO THIS THREAD AND TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IT. YOU MAY SIMPLY MOVE ON. CHEERS.”

          Seriously, it’s a good 1/4 of the posts.

          • Matt@lemmy.worldEnglish
            51·
            1 year ago

            Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense for the article title to specify it’s specifically about the US, then? The US is the only country that doesn’t do this and it’s really annoying when just browsing (especially since lemmy.world is hosted by a Dutch individual using software made by Europeans).

            Your “suggestion” is far more condescending.

            • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I see articles all the time that don’t specify the country.

              I think that would be a good blanket rule for every post. If it’s a news article, list the country.

          • landsharkkidd@aussie.zoneEnglish
            31·
            1 year ago

            I feel like most non-Americans understand that not everything is about them.

            It’s the Americans that need to learn that not everything is about them. (Not saying that you don’t, but there’s way too many Americans I talk to who think that the world revolves around them).

    • andreas_retsis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      1 year ago

      as a high schooler (outside of america) my friends mostly have androids, I’m not saying they are better, just saying that they are more common

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      God, the memories you just unlocked

      There was this one guy at school who one day rocked up with his new Windows Phone, that was the cool, new thing then.
      When I came up to him and told him he wasn’t going to be the only one with a 4" Amoled screen, he was devastated

      Man, we were stupid