(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 😔
I’ll be the first to say that competition pushes companies, so the things you brought up are very important things which Android needs to improve on. But let’s be real here. The teens that this article is focusing on, probably don’t use or need or even understand a lot of the things you mentioned. Much of that streamlined ecosystem is mostly visible from people that work and have busy lives where you need to share data from and with lots of people and apps. So one of the biggest advantages of ios isn’t even relevant to these teens and yet they are already indoctrinated.