(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 😔
It’s US only so it doesn’t matter to the rest of the world. I don’t understand how it became like that there.
They marketed iMessage so well, while the rest of the world adopted apps like WhatsApp, Line or Telegram. In part because of iMessage, they never really adopted any of those at the same rate. I damn glad that’s not a thing in Europe, I’d lose it if I had to use an iPhone. Good phones all right, but I’m just so used to the little tweaks of Android.
Marketing.
In other parts of the world it is even worse. In Asia iphone is even more of a status symbol which makes it even more desired.
But they don’t seem to be the majority or have the iMessage issue which is the main problem. I live in Asia myself and know about the status thing.
That and dipshit Americans still use SMS. The rest of the free world uses WhatsApp.