This is a great article on the phenomenon I posted before. My kids are on Android and the pressure to get an iPhone is

Apr 15, 2021
8:21:05am

CSoul Truly Addicted User

kind of hilarious. I think my kids will survive though.

Don't forget: A green bubble on an iPhone is a person - Android Authority

There's a phenmonenon where some iPhone users will refuse to communicate with Android users because of the iMessage green bubble. No, we're not joking.

https://www.androidauthority.com/green-bubble-phenomenon-1021350/[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.androidauthority.com/green-bubble-phenomenon-1021350/amp/]

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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.

Don't forget: A green bubble on an iPhone is a person - Android Authority

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