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

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1043·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, it’s a way bigger problem that kids are being indoctrinated into “keeping up with the Joneses” as such a young age.

    We’ve officially made children part of the Conspicuous Consumption game and motherfucker, they don’t have money, it’s their parents money!

    It’s sickening and will fuck their finances their whole lives if having the best iPhone is more important than being able to put food on your plate.

    I’m way the fuck more worried about these kids indoctrinated into a Capitalist hell-hole more than I am about fucking Android.

    If our democratic future is banking on these kids saving us, and they’re already rooted firmly up a corporations asshole, we’re fucked.

    • DeadlineX@lemm.eeEnglish
      34·
      1 year 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.eeEnglish
          10·
          1 year 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.mlEnglish
            8·
            1 year 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.

      • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year 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.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

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

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      83·
      1 year ago

      Is this why me and my equally autistic partner are so decent with our money against statistical odds?

      I mean i knew purchases for status where a thing but surely thats just the odd snobbish people right?

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      1 year ago

      So, they’re mindless image driven consumers who are going to bankrupt themselves and their parents to the point of starvation AND bring about the end of democracy because… of which phone they use?