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 😔

  • @[email protected]English
    4•1 year ago

    I still have my first gen iPhone SE on iOS 15, still completely usable in 2023 although I am noticing more apps only available on iOS 16, mostly newer releases such as Lemmy clients, ChatGPT (the app), etc.

    I don’t think this is too bad for a 6 year old phone. I used to daily drive my Galaxy S5 until about three years ago when it was 5 years old, and that was forced up to modern LineageOS at that point because the original Samsung firmware just wasn’t cutting it.

    There’s a lot of things I hate about Apple which I could rag on for days, but the argument of “You need to replace your iPhone every two years” is an uninformed opinion, and a baseless argument.

    • credit crazyEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Wait is the is on ios phones tied to the hardware so like if a phone was made with iOS 15 you can’t update it to iOS 16

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        No, iOS can absolutely be updated, but only up to where Apple stops supporting the device. I think my iPhone SE 1st gen was released on iOS 9, and it got to iOS 15, where Apple did not release iOS 16 for it. However it still gets security updates and probably will for about another year, based on Apple’s history.