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Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem (www.androidpolice.com)

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Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers use an iPhone, spelling disaster for Google's mobile future

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A lot of it is due to peer pressure, marketing, and such.

I'm not from the US, but I knew people, who berated Android for having lower-end models (which meant even their flagship models are lower-end), some models still having headphone jacks (one of them screamed at me for buying a wired mouse, thus not insentivizing manufacturers to develop even better wireless technologies, thus enabling him to have a wireless audio interface and a portless Macbook (would be super elegant)), etc.

There's also Apple's massive foothold in the education market. I guess kids using iPads are more likely to stay with other Apple devices in the future.