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(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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[-] vjprema@fosstodon.org 54 points 1 year ago

@AlmightySnoo
I see this from another angle. The 99% average people using stuff like this and judging people based on the color of a txt bubble simply are not worth hanging with. I mean the whole reason I use Lemmy and mastodon and not the platforms that the 99% use is for this reason. Let your honest choices filter the crap from your life.

[-] printerwhydontyouwork@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I stay with Android partially for this. All the irrelevant people exclude me from their iMessage group chats, and consequently, leaving me out of the gossips and drama.

Nobody in my circle cares about the color of the chat bubbles. Those who want to talk to you, and are worth talking to, don't care.

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