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 😔

    • @HazdazEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      It’s needlessly heavy. Wjy is this tiny phone so bloody heavy?! The interface is cartoonishly simplistic. The way the UI is set up is so cumbersome… like let’s simplify this so much that it is now more difficult to use when all they should need to do is add an extra button or two. Not too dissimilar to how the Mac UI stubbornly is designed around a one button mouse. And it is organized in a way that forces one to use it in only one way - Apple’s way.

      I will say that the screen is really nice, but no better than my Samsung phone. The camera is quite nice, but again, I’m not going to say it is more than marginally better than my Samsung. The battery life is also quite good. So it’s not totally shit. I just can not fathom why young people would favor iPhone that much more, other than marketing and image.