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by delta_p_delta_x 1347 days ago
Among *American teens
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In recent years/months I too have seen teen (youngsters) floating around their Iphones, half way around the world. The numbers have increased considerably around 10% in teens from 1% few years back.

They mainly buy it as iphone is considered 'Posh', a sign of your class.

There is no way for them to use imessage as everyone uses Whatsapp, no way to use facetime as everyone uses Whatsapp Call and for these buyers no way to use apple premium apps as they cost large amount of money while google products are free.

A funny thing happened was when PUBG was banned here by government, it was removed by apple app store and google play store. But android users were still able to play PUBG by downloading and installing APK from web while apple users were not able to do it as according to apple 'Only hackers use Sideloading'. So, it was funny to watch at time android users gloating over iphone users.

It’s funny because literally the only reason WhatsApp caught on was because companies were gouging the fuck out of SMS costs. If every country did unlimited free talk and text, WhatsApp would be “what? Haven’t heard of that app” instead of the number one messaging app in Latin America
Yes. The numbers for the world as a whole would be in the low single digits.