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

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by AlmightySnoo to c/android

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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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[–] [email protected] 98 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I'm 14 and I hate iphones I prefer Android phones rooted with a custom rom

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

By the time you're 20 you'll be using Arch Linux and self-hosting everything!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I kinda already do I use arch and selfhost many things not everything but still

[–] Tangent5280 23 points 10 months ago

We'll be watching your career with great interest

[–] duviobaz 23 points 10 months ago

This is the way to go, kid

[–] bleepbloopbleep 14 points 10 months ago

This one here is promising!

[–] Prager_U 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm 2 and I use a smartphone that only executes Fortran through punch cards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'm fifteen months old and my phone only runs a morse-code JIT compiler. The virtual keyboard has exactly one key

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice, the world will try to conform you but never give in! You choose what you want to do.

[–] original2 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah... alot of people will. In my case my school IT department said I couldn't use Linux... I got BSD. They then said that I needed Windows or Mac. They gave up after I got Windows 98 to work on my laptop (it's xfce but they didn't know the difference).

[–] creditCrazy 1 points 10 months ago

I'm just gotten to used to Motorolas twist to activate camera and now that I live in the city and durability isn't as much of a concern I'm thinking of getting a foldable