(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 😔
Your comment explains exactly why saying “kids are dumb” is too reductive. We dont have to all be rocket scientists, but there is a bar that most humans naturally surpass. The most gross people on this earth want to artifitially put people below that bar and keep them as slaves and/or pets. Wether they have suceeded is debateable. Im describing addictive things. Sadly, Youtube, a home for real and fake people alike to make interesting stuff, doesnt matter because the site uses content as bait, a system to keep you hooked.