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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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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

*Why American Teen Hate Android Phones

Also I'm very glad that Lemmy is a lot less US defaultism than Reddit is. It's pretty tiring having to constantlt hear about Democrats and Republicans, or bubbles, or Nissan cars bad, you get the point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

gracias a diós nasci en latinoamerica

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nissan cars bad? Is that a common US complaint? The others I hear all the time (as an American myself).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just a r/cars thing. Mostly because of how Nissan relies on subprime lending to sell cars in the US and Reddit likes to makes fun out of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As someone in the US, 100% agree.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Why are Nissan cars bad?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a lot less? front page of lemmy is just r/antiwork kind of thread bitching about the rich and gop non stop despite now the president is from democrat, I thought I can escape reddit very anti capitalism here yet here we are

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah that still depends on the instance in which posts came from, imo here on c/Android it's already a lot less US centric than r/Android was.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nissan is bad? Wtf did I miss?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's mostly just a cars subreddit thing. In big subs like r/cars Nissan cars are a popular target to hate on, because of their tryst with unreliable CVT transmissions in the past plus Nissan's dependence of subprime lending in the US.