Only 13% of new iPhone owners switched from Android phones in 2023, down from 15% in 2022
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Really boggles us non-Americans about the allure of iMessage.

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Europe is a pretty similar situation with WhatsApp, where everyone is kind of forced to use that same platform, just luckily WhatsApp is available on iOS and Android.

Or Facebook Messenger, which I kind of have to use to talk to my relatives and some friends around the world.

Doesn’t have the same weird pressure to use one device manufacturer like in the US though, but trying to get someone (let alone everyone) to add you on Telegram or Signal can be a similar struggle, if they don’t see a value in the effort required to switch apps just for you.

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Not all of Europe, the further east you go the more telegram is used.

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Fair enough, but then it’s the same issue to try and convince them to add you on WhatsApp (or iMessage) if they use Telegram. The point is that these are all platforms that we similarly end up stuck on, depending on what most people in our community landed on. In that way it’s not so different to the situation in the US.

People only want to use one messaging client for all their contacts, and as long as the clients remain closed platforms, we are prevented from just using whichever client we individually prefer, we have to use the platform decided on by the community, or fight an uphill battle to get everyone to reluctantly install a second messaging app just for us.

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The difference is at least Telegram seems to care a bit more about privacy than Meta

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'Murican Android user here. I’ve never gotten any shit pertaining to iMessage compatibility or this chat bubble color thing. I think what we’re hearing about is just a few toxic circles being presented as the norm for everyone here.

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It’s a kid thing, mostly.

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There’s a good chance you’re left out of separate chats.

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It’s more common with teens (80% of which are on iPhones here). Teens will grow up, and become adult iPhone users.

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As I recently former teen who never had an iPhone, the only place I’ve heard it talked about is California, but in Midwest/South nobody cares.

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I used to think the same, until it happened to me twice…

I got playful groans both times for being the only person in a class group with an Android. I have an iPad so it ended up being a non-issue.

Heck, I was talking to a guy with a Pixel 7 who said the woman he was dating thought it was a red flag. She’s 28.

I’m not saying it should exist, but stuff like this very much affects people whether we like it or not and pretending like it’s a non-issue doesn’t help them.

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I was talking to a guy with a Pixel 7 who said the woman he was dating thought it was a red flag. She’s 28.

What’s funny is thinking that’s a red flag is itself a red flag.

If I was dating someone who revealed they’re focused on petty shit like that, I’d be worried about a relationship full of drama.

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It’s mostly teenagers

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I wouldn’t be surprise if it was a gorilla marketing campaign.

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I believe you mean “guerilla marketing” campaign.

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Dyslexia but thanks all the same

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That’s alright, you tried. Looks like people understood the intent and had a good laugh. One of my dyslexic wife’s better misspeaks was taking a guess at “Jormungandr”, and she went with “Juggernaut”. Gorilla warfare certainly is a more fun image to picture.

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It’s more fun the other way. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the possibly came up in some meetings when Harambee was trending.

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Stupid kids decided it was a status symbol and no one in the states really uses third party message apps.

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I don’t want to call the kids stupid. It’s the Network Affect. Apple has a sleek design and like two phones. Android it really uneven in quality and capabilities between mid range end high end. I’ve been on Androids since 2012 and love them. I can however understand why iPhone caught on and then you’re friends are on they’re and you want to be. Social pressure doesn’t make kids stupid just human.

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It’s not just the message color thing. It seems like more kids these days just can’t solve anything themselves. Like ok, they want to live their entire lives on their cell phone, but they have no knowledge of how the phones work or what any of the hardware inside does. Any problems with anything and it’s just “broke” and they have nearly unlimited information at their fingertips, but don’t know how to look anything up to try and actually solve a problem.

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Remember that you’re often talking to teens on the internet, lol. And for them it’s more of a peer pressure thing. Apple got em good.

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I’m convinced that it’s purposeful sabotage on Apple’s part because if there’s one Android user in a group chat iMessage fucks up images/videos/effects for all recipients. So being the lone Android holdout gets you pressured to switch

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It falls back to MMS which is terrible.

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And specifically falls back to a very small mms, something like 100kb instead of 3mb for images.

That’s why you always hear crap about androids having terrible cameras - most people only experience them through excessive apple compression.

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It’s more than that. Apps used to take screenshots of the screen instead of trying to work their way through the camera apis in Snapchat for example, at least in the past. There’s also just bad camera out there. My Pixel 6 Pro is terrible for document scanning given its sensor size. The edges are always blurry.

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