(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 😔

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        31 year ago

        I’m fifteen months old and my phone only runs a morse-code JIT compiler. The virtual keyboard has exactly one key

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      61 year ago

      Nice, the world will try to conform you but never give in! You choose what you want to do.

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        Yeah… alot of people will. In my case my school IT department said I couldn’t use Linux… I got BSD. They then said that I needed Windows or Mac. They gave up after I got Windows 98 to work on my laptop (it’s xfce but they didn’t know the difference).

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      11 year ago

      I’m just gotten to used to Motorolas twist to activate camera and now that I live in the city and durability isn’t as much of a concern I’m thinking of getting a foldable