Especially teens and college students

Source: i’m a college student

  • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    This is the real reason. The iphone was the original tablet-like smart phone and it was marketed as a premium offering and as a result has always enjoyed that status.

    Android was second to market and a competitor to the iphone. Because every manufacturer wanted to make a tablet-like phone, they copied the iphone’s style and made hundreds of shitty knockoffs over the years that effectively bolstered the iphone’s premium status. Yes there are flagship android phones made by Samsung and LG that cost more than the most expensive iphone - but they are loaded with bloatware and bootlocked so you dont get updates and is held back by garbage so it works like shit in only a few years. So even the premium options are shit. The google pixels are good hardware but they’re made by a company that makes every one of their trillions of pennies by spying on you.