Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers use an iPhone, spelling disaster for Google's mobile future
Apple may have a monopoly on teens in the US, but the fact that most android phones are cheaper, more powerful, more customisable and look better, will keep Google in the top spot with android.
Also, and I realise this is anecdotal, but where I'm from in the UK, having an iPhone stands you out as a bit of a dullard. Wasted money and all that.
When Jobs kicked the bucket, RMS rightfully said that this mf'n evil genius has figured out a way of making people run to their stores with their arms stretched forward, asking them to handcuff them.
If the US had a functioning FCC that wasn't toothless aka their own Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, and Digital Markets Act, iMessage wouldn't even be a special.
It's all Samsung and Huawei in my country. I've heard the popularity of Apple in the US is partially due to the use of imessage by people and the strong dislike for "green text" because of how Android messenger doesn't work well with imessage or something.
People here mostly use Whatsapp for communication so the whole green-text thing is never talked about.
There's no “Android messenger”. iMessage just degrades to SMS when the receiving device isn't an iPhone. So it's really that those people choose to use the only messenger app that is only available on one brand of phones.
I honestly think that is only a thing in the USA. Nowhere else in the world thinks like this. Also the type of bullying and even school shootings that we see and hear are mostly only-USA issues so I think there is something really wrong with teens over there.
Commenters: Let's focus on making Android and its communities better rather than trying to bring other communities down.
I know why we all love and evangelize Android, but we should consider that these teens might use iPhones because they considered the alternatives and like iPhone better.
Let's give them the benefit of the doubt rather than just assuming it's peer pressure or stupidity. If we step into their shoes, we can find ways to make Android more inviting to people.
