It’s not cool with anyone
Not surprising. How many children do you know who use an iPad. I myself offered my child one of the android “children” tablets and while the preloaded games are decent the function of it is terrible. So laggy and it’s a children tablet, I understand, but it was unbearable. My son began playing games on my iPhone and he preferred it. A lot of kids do. These are kids who have used Apple products from a very young age, I can’t imagine them switching. If you grow up with the Apple ecosystem you become accustomed to it. I had iPads and iPhones growing up. My parents owned the first iPhone and everyone after. I tried a Samsung s7edge once as an adult and while the phone was beautiful. It felt laggy compared to Apple. I couldn’t get used to it. After three days I took it back. Yeah the customization was nice but I’ve jail broken iPhones before so I truly don’t care about androids customization. I want a phone that works seamlessly and I want it to work with every tech device I own. But I can’t see these kids switching to android. Most kids I know have iPads or have used iPads bc that’s what their parents have. They grow to teens who use iPhones. I was an iPod kid and I eventually got an iPod touch, then an iPhone and like I said I’ve stepped out once for three days and never again. I’ve decided if I want a flip phone with xyz I will wait until Apple comes out with one.
Young people are social so messages, Instagram video aka facetime rules. I doubt many browse for more than five minutes on a iPhone.
Using iPhone outside of the apps you see how limited it is. Trying to get a video is tough wince upu do t have a file system. I phones are social phone android is a much better operating system but dealing with teenagers who just want to socialize will hurt android.
IPhone is pretty terrible.
I know the bubble color plays some part but it extends to Airdrop, Facetime, iCloud features, etc… that are Apple exclusive.
No kid wants to be the one that tells them they can’t Facetime with their group, etc or do be like “Hey uh can you email me those pics dude”. Then that goes further, how Airpods work and are a “fashion” symbol, Apple Watch, etc.
Part of the issue with Android, coming from someone who was an Android user from 2009-2021 is that it lost it’s identity. Instead of striving to be a different solution, that offered different, better functionality it followed a lot of what Apple did. So it’s now gotten a reputation of being a second rate clone.
Like, the original Droid commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e52TSXwj774
It listed off at the time serious things the iPhone wasn’t doing like flash, high res video, high res screen, apps, lots of stuff.
Obviously most of that isn’t relevant anymore but outside of the better zoom on a Samsung I can’t think of a single feature I’d want from recent Android competition.
It’s imessage.
If android phones showed up in imessage as red bubbles or purple bubbles but everything still worked OR if Apple released iMessage for Android very few would actually care about the type of phone used .
The only people who will benefit from an Apple monopoly are the Apple shareholders, not the Apple customers.
3 weeks ago, i got a base Galaxy S23 128gb for the same price that Iphone 11 128gb is sold brand new(around 500euro), as an ex iphone 11 user that wanted something new. Even iphone 12 128 was more expensive than S23.
I wanted to go at least iphone 15 due to typeC(even though 60hz screen sucks), but it was almost double the price. Even iphone 13 was like 250 more expensive. Yes the iphone prices in Europe are crazy expensive.
Thats my main issue with Apple. Their cheaper options are really bad/awful, especially in Europe.
Their devices, even older models are crazy expensive, including the repairs.
And the last part is something most teenagers dont think about a lot(until they brake it, then they notice how expensive they are).
