Android isn’t cool with teenagers, and that’s a big problem::Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers use an iPhone, spelling disaster for Google’s mobile future

  • @DeadlineX@lemm.ee
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    348 months ago

    Nothing is new here.

    This isn’t that different from when I was a kid twenty years ago. Only instead of phones (though we all had phones back then too, even if they weren’t smart), it was game consoles, or Pokémon cards, or beanie babies or whatever.

      • @DeadlineX@lemm.ee
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        108 months ago

        Yeah you’re not wrong about that. Although some people went hard into the beanie babies. And the Pokémon cards actually.

        If you were into warhammer you resigned yourself at a young age to never having money. Those things eat up an ungodly amount of money.

        • @M500@lemmy.ml
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          88 months ago

          That’s fair, I’m actually thinking of magic the gathering at the moment. Luckily my friend was given a huge chest of cards like hundreds and hundreds of cards, so we never had to buy any.

      • @Windex007@lemmy.world
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        48 months ago

        Assuming a new iPhone every 2 years, that’s still pretty on par with historical premiums that would be being paid in the same timeframe for the “in” clothing brands. Designer jeans and Lululemons come to mind.

      • paraphrand
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        18 months ago

        Accounting for inflation? Maybe not much of a difference when talking about game consoles…

    • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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      128 months ago

      Yeah I don’t know where this guy has been for the last 70 years but consumerism came for kids a long time ago.

      • @DeadlineX@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        He’ll, kids shows have been essentially advertising platforms for decades. Shows and movies exist to sell toys and make profits.