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‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones (www.wsj.com)
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(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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[–] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

I don't actually agree, it's less about the color of the chat bubble obviously, and more about the experience. iMessage is front and center, baked in, allows for full quality images and videos, typing indicators, reactions, replies, red receipts. You don't get any of that with SMS. This is still absolutely an Apple problem through and through, preventing other chat apps from feeling native. That being said it does explain why people care so much about iMessage

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but Apple could adopt RCS which Android supports and all of those messaging improvements you mentioned are copacetic.

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