Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers use an iPhone, spelling disaster for Google’s mobile future
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.
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?
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
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
When looking at worldwide market share Android leads with 80+ percent.
Looking at the world I see 69% to 29% share in favour to android. There is no problem for android at all.
The subheading does specify that is in the US. And in the main text of the article, the very first line in fact, it mentions that Android has the largest market share worldwide.
How much of that split is among the 3rd world and over 25s? Demographics matter, and paint a very different picture.
I don’t know a single person of any age that uses an iPhone. I live in a medium-to-high income country.
A news program yesterday used a QR code to provide a link to a political document that is newsworthy. The anchor instructed people to “point your Android at the screen” to download the document.
Americans are vast outliers in this.
As an American, it seems we will go all in on the most expensive and most milquetoastly adequate option every time.
Do you mind sharing where you live? I’m interested in what traits the countries that skew one way or another may have. It’s worth noting that Japan is another outlier in this regard. They are something like 60-70% iOS over there.
Guys, should an essential device be “cool”? It doesn’t hurt, don’t get me wrong… But is it a good reason to buy a device you need?
Buy this shit because it works, not because it’s cool. Android lets you do more, so I own one. That’s it. Fuck Google, I just want to install third party apps.
These are teenagers. Buying anything is done under the consideration of how cool it is. Literally everything else is not important during consideration, what matters is having the thing that makes you socially accepted.
If old school cell phones with monochrome pixel displays and zero functionalities beyond telephone and sms were trending, instead of just being a niche for people fed up with social media, kids would buy that in a heartbeat.
You probably forgot how overwhelmingly important social status and belonging to a group is at that age.
Classmate once rocked up with that new thing called „iPhone“ and was the coolest kid on the block. Then I took out my Siemens M35 and showed them my swappable front covers, and said that each week I would put a different one on.
Suddenly this ancient brick was cooler than an iPhone.
Kids and teens are very easily convinced that something is cool
Well my fridge is an essential device and it’s cool.
But probably not cool with teenagers though…
americans just love the golden cage, also apple puts more into ads than lobbyists during a presidential election campain
