(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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    Sheep come in many age groups. I have an iphone for work, and I have turned off iMessage.

    “why don’t you have an iPhone?”

    “I do, unfortunately. But turned iMessage off because it’s shit.”

    “But now your messages come in green bubbles. It’s annoying!”

    “Send your message in Teams”

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      “On android phones you can get different messaging apps, and on some of those apps you can change the color of the text bubbles (both send and receive) to suit your needs. If the color is really an issue for you, just change it! Oh iPhones can’t do that? Shame…”

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        1 year ago

        Yup. And one that randomly assigns a color for each chat. It’s nice.