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87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

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Re: 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

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Post by mymythisisthis »

gtvwill wrote: post #41

1/3 of my kids have iPhone. The use of iPhones amongst them and their peers is directly related to their level of IT/Tech knowhow. Long story short the kids on android are probably gonna wind up building the tech the kids on apple consume. Or atleast that's how it's playing out amongst them atm. iPhone kids legit just take photos and short vidyas mostly of themselves. It's like you can correlate an iPhone with a toxi…

But the kids with the iPhones will be the financier controlling the purse strings. See the Commodore vs. IBM clones vs. Mac in the early 1980s. Apple wins because wealthy people use them, it's Apple's advantage.

Re: 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

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Post by smcleod »

danielodievich wrote: post #84
rsync wrote: post #2

My two oldest children - 13 and 15 - have loudly proclaimed that having a "green bubble" would be worse than death .

My two high scoolers are produ members of Android generation and apparently dong give a damn as long as they get to play games and chat on discord and text with girls. I am going to count that as a win against the industrial marketing complex.

You think giving them phones from an Ad company is a win /against/ the marketing industry?

Re: 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

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Post by zimpenfish »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #55
autoexec wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Generalizing here, but that sounds exactly like teenagers. No perspective, and under way too much pressure to conform.

I was a profoundly uncool teenager and enjoyed life quite a bit. Buck the trend.

As a contrapuntal anecdata, I was profoundly uncool from primary[1] through teenage years[2][3] and was miserable for almost all of it.

[1] Parental unit is a teacher at the same school? Yeah, your life will be miserable.

[2] Come from a different part of the area? You must be [insert various insults here] for 5 years.

[3] Scholarship kid at a private school? Good luck with that.

Re: 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

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Post by throwaway894345 »

tiborsaas wrote: post #25
rsync wrote: post #2

My two oldest children - 13 and 15 - have loudly proclaimed that having a "green bubble" would be worse than death .

What's a "green bubble"?

Android users’ text message bubbles show up green, and you can’t send the “tapback” reactions (or rather, they show up as a “so and so has liked your post” rather than a thumbs up icon). This is annoying for Android users and it’s kind of tedious for iPhone users to have to vet group chats to see if there is a single Android user who might be annoyed. Apparently this is factoring into people’s phone purchasing calculus.

Re: 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

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Post by Conan_Kudo »

twobitshifter wrote: post #47
heavyset_go wrote: post #24

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We like to fingerwag at social media companies for knowingly negatively impacting children's mental health and self-esteem, yet Apple is aware of how their systems ostracize children, in their own peer groups, who can't afford to carry around luxury phones. It's one thing to be ostracized by strangers on social media, it's an entirely other thing to be ostracized by your own friends and peers. The latter is tragicall…

Is the iPhone se really luxury? If you are starting from the idea that every teen will have a smart phone, I think apple has blanketed the market with products at all the cost points.

It's pretty luxury nowadays. Decent smartphones go for less than half that cost, and good ones can be even cheaper. The accessibility and affordability of high quality mobile computing devices has risen across the board.

But Apple is very much on the upper mid range to high end side of things.

Re: 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

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Post by deadmutex »

autoexec wrote: post #52
ceejayoz wrote: post #40

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That was fixed last year. https://www.androidpolice.com/google-messages-might-soon-han...

That's only if you're using google's SMS app. Many phones ship with something else (like Samsung's) as the default.

Samsung has started to ship Google Messages as the default:

https://9to5google.com/2022/02/14/google-messages-samsung-ga...

Re: 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

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Post by dagmx »

gtvwill wrote: post #41

1/3 of my kids have iPhone. The use of iPhones amongst them and their peers is directly related to their level of IT/Tech knowhow. Long story short the kids on android are probably gonna wind up building the tech the kids on apple consume. Or atleast that's how it's playing out amongst them atm. iPhone kids legit just take photos and short vidyas mostly of themselves. It's like you can correlate an iPhone with a toxi…

The irony that your own post displays a toxic level of vanity regarding technical competency but projects it onto the children.

Re: 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

nsxwolf wrote: post #32
m348e912 wrote: post #8

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(iPhone user here) It does seem to me that Apple isn't playing fair and this is no longer the technical issue it once was. Apple has so far refused to adopt RCS (the successor to SMS and MMS) which is now an industry standard for text messaging. Because of that, aside from the green bubble, the text messaging experience with non-iPhone users is subpar. Images and videos are compressed and things like tapback and grou…

Given the iPhone's marketshare, is it RCS really the industry standard?

Android is ~72% of the global market: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile

So, yes.

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