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Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers use an iPhone, spelling disaster for Google's mobile future

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

While other commenters are correct about the marketing in some aspects. As a parent of teenagers I will say if they don't have an iPhone they will be mocked relentlessly. The whole bubble color thing is real. They think androids are for poor people even though androids have a much larger range of price. This isn't a "my kids" thing. This is a "everyone in school thinks" thing.

God help me when they get their next upgrade and suddenly my chargers start going missing because "someone stole" theirs...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They think androids are for poor people

So it boils down to classism among youths and in schools?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

adults participate in it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, no, blame the children.

We, the current adults, are not at fault for the situation. It's others. Older adults, or the young people. It's only us who is enlightened, everyone else is fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

this is the same excuse i hear for people circumcising their kids.

are us people so weak to peer pressure?