(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 😔

  • @Mojojojo1993
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    221 year ago

    They are actually pretty dumb too

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      • @Mojojojo1993
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        201 year ago

        Children ? In general ? Their brains aren’t fully formed ? They lack the ability to processes consequences.

        They have in the last completed “challenges” that have resulted in their deaths.

        Adults aren’t particularly smarter either. But children have a reason. Adults don’t