Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers use an iPhone, spelling disaster for Google’s mobile future

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Teens are more susceptible to marketing and peer pressure. It’s not their fault or anything it’s just their brains aren’t finished cooking and these companies take advantage of that.

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Yeah, there’s the whole green vs blue chat bubbles thing too. They’ll leave people with Android phones out of the group chat, which isn’t exactly great for your social life at school.

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Their parents are to blame too. You shouldn’t be giving a kid everything it wants. How the fuck would a kid find the money to buy such expensive trash anyway?

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When my newborn daughter turns 12 or 13, she’s getting a dumb phone. She needs to be able to call and text her family, that’s it. Then she can go through the stages that I went through of dumb phone to slightly better dumb phone to low-tier smartphone to flagship as she gets to be 18. At that point then, she’ll be old enough to buy it with her own job money

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You… there aren’t enough like you around.

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There are teenagers outside of the US. Just fyi

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What?

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9/10 stat is US teens. That stat does not hold outside of the US, therefore the issue is not being a teen, per se

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