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.

You guys are hating on Android, but the reality is that I will pick Android any day.

At least with Android I have the freedom to install custom OS versions, change the default browser, sideload apps and to be honest I find Apple's anti-consumer practices appalling, not to mention their very questionable legacy, etc.

On my Android I have changed the default browser to Firefox nightly and loaded the libredirect and I am enjoying a lot of sideloaded apps, including Newpipe and it is running beautifully. I personally find Android a lot more powerful and customizable.

Teenagers. US teenagers, specifically. So definitely no big problem.

Personally for me the problem starts when there is no mobile hardware which supports free/libre OS. It is already visible in the supported hardware list of LineageOS. Large tablets, particularly.

"Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers use an iPhone"

No.

"Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers SAY THEY use an iPhone"

FTFY.

How many actually use an iPhone remains to be seen.

Wonder how many of these teens are buying their own phones.

US teenagers have never been known for being particularly smart ...

This stat seems wrong. It suggests 90% of teenagers have parents who bought an iPhone and handed it down or bought a new one for a kid (or the kid worked for a long time and saved up, etc). So many people have basic phones because of their budget that this seems way off.

Maybe I'll read the article now.

Edit - Read it but still skeptical. Study summary here - https://www.pipersandler.com/teens

I actually think that Android has gone downhill in a big way, but I still won't go to Apple's closed ecosystem, and I don't care what teenagers think.

Yet android has the bigger marketshare.

Teenagers might think they want an iPhone, but not everyone has the money for one and paying the bills. Whether they could make life changes to make more money is debatable, but the fact remains that not everyone does have $1000 to throw at a phone.

Because of this, the cheaper yet surprisingly still usable alternative, android has the larger marketshare. Since Google makes money on ads it's better for them to hand out more phones for cheap or in same cases for free, when a manufacturer makes a phone, when all those users see ads on YouTube and Google.

I wonder how this correlates to low use of WhatsApp in the US. In South America and Europe WhatsApp is used heavily and looks the same no matter the platform but none of my US friends have WhatsApp so they rely on iMessage instead. None of them want to be seen sending green bubbles in the chat. I’ve even seen this as a side plot in a teen tv show that my wife was watching.

Can people just stop fucking arguing about android vs iphone, amd vs intel, apple vs samsung etc. I'm so sick of this idiotic mess.

"this soulless corporation is better than this soulless corporation because their marketing material uses this shade of grey with white text"

I am going to have a mental breakdown if I read any more of these braindead conversations

It should be GNULinux vs Windows/Mac, Graphene/LineageOS vs Android/iPhone, etc.

People arguing corpo1 vs corpo2 have all been brainwashed by the corpos to ignore freedom respecting alternatives, and rather argue a meaningless argument because those 2 corpos are probably owned by the same shareholders anyway.

Google had the game in their hand and then they destroyed Hangouts.

I think it starts with the ads.. privacy etc. people believe that shit a s apple is good on it. That said iMessage is another things used a lot around central and North America and also in Asia. I think Europe not so much. That is why iPhone is popular. Just a thought. Not sure I am right. I use an iPhone and a pixel with GrapheneOS. Enjoy both and need both one for business and one for day to day private life

Well yeah, of course teenagers will just want the most expensive thing, regardless of whether it's actually any better.

Teenagers are largely stupid. We all were.

Look at it like this, how many wanted the Playstation 3 when it was cool, then factor in how many people bought that at launch vs the ps2 at launch. Actual market share matter more then opinions on what's cool.