Comment by hylaride

Comment by hylaride 4 days ago

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iOS/iPhones are the majority of phones in Canada and the US (~60%). However, if you take the upper half of household incomes that number skyrockets to 80-90%. Comparatively, in the UK it's 50/50. In the rest of europe android mostly has a 60-75% market share (tends to drift more towards android the more eastern you go - signalling wealth has a lot to do with it).

The reasons why are varied (everything from wealth signalling to switching being a pain and iphone mostly had a first mover advantage for quality and availability for the first several years), but it's only in the last two years that I've seen people start to use multi-platform chat apps here. Most of my peer group with other parents all default to imessage group chats for sharing photos, stories of our kids.

I am also starting to notice a loosening on apple's services. Spotify is used by more people than Apple music even amungst the apple households I know.

Der_Einzige 4 days ago

Kids are ruthless about anti green bubble discrimination and it’s part of the reason for the rise of incels. The overwhelming majority of incels are android users, and the mainstream cultural media likes to make clear that one of the reason for being incels is them using a “poordroid”

https://leafandcore.com/2019/08/24/green-bubbles-are-a-turn-...

https://outsidethebeltway.com/the-dreaded-green-bubble/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...

https://gizmodo.com/im-buying-an-iphone-because-im-ashamed-o...

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241473453/why-green-text-bub...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90391587/why-we-dont-want-you-an...

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  • aucisson_masque 4 days ago

    > The overwhelming majority of incels are android users

    Seriously ?

    I have read your links, it shows that some kids are stupid and discriminate over what phone brand one is using.

    First of all, that’s purely a USA issue.

    Secondly, it says nothing about incels.

    A phone brand doesn’t make you more charismatic, in fact in my experience I have seen more iPhone user being insecure than Android user.

    Especially the one who invest heavily into Apple « ecosystem », they are more often than not (in Europe) nerds.

    Just to be honest, I write that from my iPhone. Really got no bias.

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    • djeastm 4 days ago

      If I remember my teenage years, perception feels a lot like reality.

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    • zifpanachr23 4 days ago

      Lmao. Don't pay any attention to the thing about incels, which whether true or not, so obviously does not establish that android was a causative factor. Look at the percentage of US people that have Android. iPhone is not nearly as dominant in the US as spoiled brat teens seem to think. Nearly half the population is Android users. I'm sure we are all incels.

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      • hylaride 3 days ago

        Yeah, 99% of incels (at least the ones I know about, mostly because they hit the news) have an obvious mental health tick or manifestation that turns off potential romantic partners. These people are being excluded (rightly or wrongly) because of that, not because of Android.

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  • oenton 4 days ago

    Whoa hold on. I was with you until “the overwhelming majority of incels are android users.” How did you draw that conclusion?

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