‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones

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

(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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Who the fuck calls Android devices "'Droids" unironically? This couldn't have been real teenagers. Not ones from the past decade at the very least.

Who the fuck calls Android devices "'Droids" unironically?

Motorola 👀

Not ones from the past decade at the very least.

guess we can thank TikTok and Snapchat for that?