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Apr 15, 2021
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Baron
AKA "Dear Leader"
Bad friends.
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90% Teens expect to own an iPhone... 88% already do
TheLost
4/15/21 8:15am
Sounds like they have pretty realistic expectations
DieHarder
4/15/21 8:15am
No way that's true.
JuicyJam
4/15/21 8:16am
They have been doing that same survey for years..
TheLost
4/15/21 8:19am
The survey was conducted via iMessage
MarkWatney
4/15/21 8:28am
why would our young folks want to support that child labor loving
jwf
4/15/21 8:17am
Android phones are way more popular than that
KingDave
4/15/21 8:18am
Every teen with an Android i know... wishes they had an iPhone.
TheLost
4/15/21 8:20am
True
Solomon Levi
4/15/21 8:22am
My teens randomly told me the other day: Thank you for having us be an iOS family. It was unsolicited. No teens want
Pete
4/15/21 8:30am
My son is on a neighborhood text chain with about 20 kids
mikecito
4/15/21 8:20am
It’s the blue bubble. It’s ostracizing even among adults if you are a green
Jay_L
4/15/21 8:37am
That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
byusage
4/15/21 8:41am
It happens all the time though.
CSoul
4/15/21 9:32am
True! Happened to me last week!
Parkercoug82
4/15/21 1:13pm
Not out east. Only people I know w/ Androids are people who just moved here
zerome4sooners
4/15/21 8:52am
It all started with this tweet from Jimmer
grosven
4/15/21 8:19am
Did they perform their survey inside an Apple store?
Corn Pop
4/15/21 8:20am
This is a great article on the phenomenon I posted before. My kids are on Android and the pressure to get an iPhone is
CSoul
4/15/21 8:21am
I tend to agree with Tristo
DieHarder
4/15/21 8:21am
#NeverGreen
TCuz
4/15/21 8:23am
#AlwaysGreen
CSoul
4/15/21 8:24am
Apparently TCuz is a 13 year old girl
mobius
4/15/21 8:36am
The attempt to build a unified messaging app on Android (using RCS) died..
TheLost
4/15/21 8:43am
I was devastated to hear I won't be getting emojis anytime soon. But yes, Android native messaging is a mess.
CSoul
4/15/21 8:46am
It gives Apple no incentive to support RCS.. iMessage holds power for apple.
TheLost
4/15/21 8:50am
Totally agree. iMessage is literally the key to Apple's fortune. They would be a shadow of the company without it.
CSoul
4/15/21 9:12am
Google has... Messages.
TheLost
4/15/21 9:19am
T-mobile is now making it default. Assumption is others will follow now. Probably will fail again though.
CSoul
4/15/21 9:24am
We have a text thread with my 12 golf travel buddies, and a couple guys have androids
JOPE
4/15/21 8:30am
I promise you it's more annoying in the other direction when you emoji your messages like a teen girl
CSoul
4/15/21 8:32am
I wouldn’t include them in the group message
TCuz
4/15/21 8:38am
You’re choosing your friends based on Apple not knowing how to play nice?
Corn Pop
4/15/21 8:40am
We had one friend excluded from the group chat cause he was on Android. He switched.
TCuz
4/15/21 8:53am
Suckers born every minute, I guess.
Corn Pop
4/15/21 9:02am
Bad friends.
Baron
4/15/21 9:05am
Yah he was, but he switched to join us, so he’s alright now.
TCuz
4/15/21 9:13am
I would be devastated
CSoul
4/15/21 9:15am
Sounds dumb.
Corn Pop
4/15/21 8:39am
Except 99.999% of "texting" teens do is through snapchat
BYUMizzou
4/15/21 9:05am
That's also true. I recently looked at "text" usage and it was low for 2 of my teens but a 3rd it was still high.
Pete
4/15/21 9:12am
Yes, I'm an android guy, but my current teens who are still at home have iphones
BYUMizzou
4/15/21 9:38am
And to take it one step further, I went and looked at the detail on the 31 text
BYUMizzou
4/15/21 9:47am
That's way too high. In my area a few snap but not most. Also, we don't allow
Baron
4/15/21 9:12am
Snapchat is the primary medium of communication for all the teens I know.
BYUMizzou
4/15/21 9:40am
Lots of bad parents. More boobs have been seen on snapchat than any other app.
Baron
4/15/21 9:41am
It's a combo of Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram. I would guess over 90% of teens time are spent on those three.
CSoul
4/15/21 9:54am
I wonder if it ever becomes the facebook of phones with teens seeing it as an
Ojiisan
4/15/21 8:21am
Apps will come and go... but Apple has been the counter-culture since the 80's.
TheLost
4/15/21 9:11am
Fact: Utes and rapists prefer iphones.
Baron
4/15/21 8:26am
Gabb....my kid wants an iphone, they can get it when they are 16+
BlackBart
4/15/21 8:26am
My poor teens wont' ever have one. Poor things.
Adwight
4/15/21 8:30am
No phones till HS and they didn't need an iPhone till after HS.
BYU Grounds
4/15/21 10:24am
That’s the thing. Even church wise, a teen without a smart phone is at a
Corn Pop
4/15/21 12:07pm
What about those new phones that look like a smartphone?
BYU Grounds
4/15/21 3:28pm
If it was just a status symbol, my kids wouldn't have them.
Corn Pop
4/15/21 3:52pm
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