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Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem::Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers use an iPhone, spelling disaster for Google's mobile future

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[–] 102 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

Honestly, it's a way bigger problem that kids are being indoctrinated into "keeping up with the Joneses" as such a young age.

We've officially made children part of the Conspicuous Consumption game and motherfucker, they don't have money, it's their parents money!

It's sickening and will fuck their finances their whole lives if having the best iPhone is more important than being able to put food on your plate.

I'm way the fuck more worried about these kids indoctrinated into a Capitalist hell-hole more than I am about fucking Android.

If our democratic future is banking on these kids saving us, and they're already rooted firmly up a corporations asshole, we're fucked.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Nothing is new here.

    This isn’t that different from when I was a kid twenty years ago. Only instead of phones (though we all had phones back then too, even if they weren’t smart), it was game consoles, or Pokémon cards, or beanie babies or whatever.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Only difference is about $1000 give or take a few bucks.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah you’re not wrong about that. Although some people went hard into the beanie babies. And the Pokémon cards actually.

    If you were into warhammer you resigned yourself at a young age to never having money. Those things eat up an ungodly amount of money.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That’s fair, I’m actually thinking of magic the gathering at the moment. Luckily my friend was given a huge chest of cards like hundreds and hundreds of cards, so we never had to buy any.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Assuming a new iPhone every 2 years, that's still pretty on par with historical premiums that would be being paid in the same timeframe for the "in" clothing brands. Designer jeans and Lululemons come to mind.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    So, they’re mindless image driven consumers who are going to bankrupt themselves and their parents to the point of starvation AND bring about the end of democracy because… of which phone they use?

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