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‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones(www.wsj.com)

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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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Doorbell0008@lemmy.world
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RCS should be the default. SMS is the protocol designed for old non smart cellphones.

The exact problem is that Apple DOES default to SMS outside of imessage

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SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org
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You’re right… but isn’t RCS designed to be a superset of sms, with sms being a fallback for old clients on the other end? Really I meant “there should be a standard text protocol for all devices” which is what sms was originally, it just lacked all but the most basic of features.

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SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
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I don’t like RCS entirely in its current form but I believe that (I could be very wrong but) SMS is planned to be phased out in the long term, how they plan to replace its reliability is beyond my understanding.

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There are still no FOSS RCS implementations on either platform.

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