Android isn’t cool with teenagers, and that’s a big problem::Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers use an iPhone, spelling disaster for Google’s mobile future
This stat seems wrong. It suggests 90% of teenagers have parents who bought an iPhone and handed it down or bought a new one for a kid (or the kid worked for a long time and saved up, etc). So many people have basic phones because of their budget that this seems way off.
Maybe I’ll read the article now.
Edit - Read it but still skeptical. Study summary here - https://www.pipersandler.com/teens
Honestly, it’s a way bigger problem that kids are being indoctrinated into “keeping up with the Joneses” as such a young age.
We’ve officially made children part of the Conspicuous Consumption game and motherfucker, they don’t have money, it’s their parents money!
It’s sickening and will fuck their finances their whole lives if having the best iPhone is more important than being able to put food on your plate.
I’m way the fuck more worried about these kids indoctrinated into a Capitalist hell-hole more than I am about fucking Android.
If our democratic future is banking on these kids saving us, and they’re already rooted firmly up a corporations asshole, we’re fucked.
Is this why me and my equally autistic partner are so decent with our money against statistical odds?
I mean i knew purchases for status where a thing but surely thats just the odd snobbish people right?
Nothing is new here.
This isn’t that different from when I was a kid twenty years ago. Only instead of phones (though we all had phones back then too, even if they weren’t smart), it was game consoles, or Pokémon cards, or beanie babies or whatever.
Yeah you’re not wrong about that. Although some people went hard into the beanie babies. And the Pokémon cards actually.
If you were into warhammer you resigned yourself at a young age to never having money. Those things eat up an ungodly amount of money.
Yeah I don’t know where this guy has been for the last 70 years but consumerism came for kids a long time ago.
Well yeah, of course teenagers will just want the most expensive thing, regardless of whether it’s actually any better.
Teenagers are largely stupid. We all were.
? Google Pixel phones cost as much as an iPhone. Same for Samsungs and other high end phones. Cheaper iPhones are available refurbished, and are still better than same costing Androids even if older.
iPhones around here cost double the price of Samsung’s flagships, Central Europe
Google Pixel phones cost as much as an iPhone. Same for Samsungs and other high end phones.
??? Maybe top-end android phones do, but the vast majority doesn’t. Mid-tier phones like the Samsung A54 cost $450, and chinese brands can get you a decent phone for as low as $200.
The OnePlus Nord N30 for example has almost everything an average person would need in a phone and it goes for $230 currently. 120Hz screen, 8gb ram, 128gb storage, 5000 mAh battery and a pretty decent 108MP camera. If that isn’t cheap, I don’t know what is.
Most of the people I know have moved on from high end to mid-tier phones. The spec difference doesn’t warrant paying twice as much anymore imo.
Mm, true. But it’s still not the same. But of course for a lot of people it’s a solution. Personally I’d still prefer an older refurbished iPhone than using Android. Actually, I did buy older iPhones in the past. I’m not a teenager, someone just likes Apple philosophy in design software and hardware
The price of Google Pixel 8 Pro is wayyyyy toooo high. 1000 euros / dollars.
“Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers use an iPhone”
No.
“Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers SAY THEY use an iPhone”
FTFY.
How many actually use an iPhone remains to be seen.
You have literally described all surveys, good job.
It isn’t like people who run surveys don’t know this and take it into account, there has been plenty of math that has been sussed out to try to remove the kind of bias that can happen in self reporting.
There’s reams of science dedicated to this problem, it isn’t new. I’m tired of seeing this argument shat out without a shred of consideration for scientific and mathematic history of taking surveys.
Yet android has the bigger marketshare.
Yet android has the bigger marketshare.
Globally. In the US, however, which is the focus of this article, it’s about 55/45 to Apple.
