(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]
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    471 year ago

    We have all universally adopted Rich Communication Services, which is an open standard.

    Well, except for Apple. They haven’t adopted it.

    • @[email protected]
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      291 year ago

      Apple’s refusal to cooperate is both obviously profit motivated and infuriating. They’ve engineered this social gulf between iPhone and non-iPhone users. I often wonder about the collective social harm.

      The low res photos and video are natural byproducts of squeezing modern media into an SMS message, but the ‘green’ bubbles take it to another level. The worst part is that the average iPhone user at best is apathetic. Meanwhile Cook suggested last year that we should just buy more iPhones as a solution.

      • Dog
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        41 year ago

        Mofo thinks we’re made out of money.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        yup. buy apple products, it’s the classism of our age to look down on poors who can’t afford the apple logo.

        such actual garbage.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      Crossing my fingers that the eu æaq that forces 3rd party app stores etc, on iphones, can fix it