(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 😔
I only learned about this green bubble thing in the last year or two. The dominant messaging app here is WhatsApp, which has its own issues, but this bizarre smartphone war isn’t one of them.
Still, anything can be a war to kids. God knows how long I spent as a teenager arguing with friends about PS2 vs Xbox, as if we could really see what effect the tech specs had. Just nonsense.