(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 😔
*Why American Teen Hate Android Phones
Also I’m very glad how Lemmy is a lot less US defaultism than Reddit is. It’s pretty tiring having to constantly hear about Democrats vs Republicans, or green bubbles, or Nissan cars bad, you get the point.
Sighs of relief in European
gracias a diós nasci en latinoamerica
Nissan cars bad? Is that a common US complaint? The others I hear all the time (as an American myself).
Just a r/cars thing. Mostly because of how Nissan relies on subprime lending to sell cars in the US and Reddit likes to makes fun out of it.
As someone in the US, 100% agree.
Nissan is bad? Wtf did I miss?
It’s mostly just a cars subreddit thing. In big subs like r/cars Nissan cars are a popular target to hate on, because of their tryst with unreliable CVT transmissions in the past plus Nissan’s dependence of subprime lending in the US.
Why are Nissan cars bad?
a lot less? front page of lemmy is just r/antiwork kind of thread bitching about the rich and gop non stop despite now the president is from democrat, I thought I can escape reddit very anti capitalism here yet here we are
Yeah that still depends on the instance in which posts came from, imo here on c/Android it’s already a lot less US centric than r/Android was.
Upvoted because this is why I’m feeling kind of annoyed right now.