(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 😔
You just referred to freedom as something that should be forced lol
Exactly. That’s the point I am trying to make - if manufacturers want to add Google services (including Google Play store), they should have to follow rules by Google, such as ability to reinstall, restore, change and modify Android OS, have proper performance & optimizations (some sort of benchmark?), otherwise no Google for them. This would directly benefit consumers and they can use their phones longer.
50% at fault is Google here for not forcing such requirements. Or manufacturers can go “Huawei way” and do whatever they like.
Obviously I am not referring to phones like Google Pixel (I have one and it’s great). I am referring to other manufacturers. “Cat S63 pro” or whatever one that I have that is my backup phone and it sucks ass.
Yeah, again you’re advocating for Google to be more like apple. The fact that shitty phones are allowed to exist is definitely a positive thing. Because that allows choice. Just do your research and don’t buy that shitty one to begin with. Unless it’s all you can afford, in which case, it probably costs less than a third of the cheapest iPhone.
How is this a positive thing?
Isn’t my point about advocating Google to enforce choice? You are focusing on part of my message about quality requirements.
Lorem ipsum bla bla bla. I already have Pixel 7p and I have no issues with it. However, someone would buy a random smartphone that does not work, lags like hell, sees that it’s utterly slow and decodes to swap to iphone. Boom - iPhone is better than Android! I assume that’s why lots of people prefer iphones over android.
I think people can handle the idea that a phone is not its operating system. It’s pretty obvious a $30 product is not equivalent to a $900 product. People have understood that since currency was invented