(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 😔
Well, he/she mentioned installing apks from anywhere you like, for example.
I was literally just looking 5’ ago for a white noise generator app in the Play Store and struggling to find anything not ad-supported.
Headed over to f-droid from my Firefox browser, did a search, downloaded and installed the apk directly and now I have it.
That’s a pretty awesome level of freedom.