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‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones

https://lemmy.world/post/3436383

‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones - Lemmy.world

(unpaywalled version on archive.today: https://archive.ph/03cwZ [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 [https://technology.inquirer.net/121775/why-green-imessage-bubbles-are-a-no-no-for-us-teens]. It’s actually hilarious how we allowed consumerism to take us this far. >“You’re telling me in 2023, you still have a ’Droid? [
] You gotta be at least 50 years old.” ouch 😔

Show threadcloudy1999Aug 20, 2023
I’m amazed it’s 2023 and we’ve still not universally adopted a protocol better than SMS. Thanks Apple
Show threadJorisAug 20, 2023
It’s 2023. Why use SMS in the first place? The world except the US has moved on years ago.
Show threadLaughingFox

I’m in the US and my thought is that it’s easier to use sms because not everyone uses Signal, not everyone uses Telegram, and those types. If they did
 One person would prefer Snapchat, the other would prefer Signal
 Too many choices. With SMS, it’s just your phone number, and everyone has a phone number.

Otherwise you gotta get usernames for different people for different apps
 It’s too complicated.

Aug 21, 2023 at 9:15amWeb
Show threadJorisAug 21, 2023

It’s not username based, it’s based on your phone number. I really don’t get what’s holding people in the US back to move on. Because these arguments don’t apply at all.

I think Snapchat is more a social media app than a messenger by the way.