TL;DR: Apple dominates the US smartphone market, but EU regulations may offer Android a chance for resurgence by enforcing messaging interoperability and standardizing hardware features.
TL;DR: Apple dominates the US smartphone market, but EU regulations may offer Android a chance for resurgence by enforcing messaging interoperability and standardizing hardware features.
That’s not universally true. There are some circles within the EU where you’re looked down upon if you don’t have an iPhone, and the stupid bubble shaming is still a thing. Very rich nordic countries, for example, have a huge iPhone majority.
The only people who care are the vain people whose purpose in life is to be considered cool and interesting. That’s mostly teenagers, but also the “look at how rich I am” people (who are often just pretending) and other insufferable types.
As a teenager it’ll be hard to find peers who aren’t obsessed with fitting in, but as an adult the people who complain about your phone are the ones you’d best stay clear from anyway. Bubble shaming is a nice and big red flag sfter high school.
The statement about a massive majority of iPhones in the Nordics is factually incorrect.
iPhone has a slight lead at one of the biggest vendors Komplett, but that is without counting the remaining 10 % which is almost exclusively Android units.
For clarity: Komplett operates in all the Nordic countries, but I would assume these numbers are for Norway, the richest of the bunch.
It’s the same story at work where I am the responsible party for company phones: Pretty evenly distributed where some of the iPhones are chosen due to MLM solutions for those wishing certain solutions.
I can only speak for my own age group in my personal life, but I would say Android has a quite big lead with young adults.
Kids/teens might be a completely different story though.