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.

  • TJA!@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    This is so funny for someone from Europe. Nobody I know cares what phone you have.

    And everyone is using chat apps, mostly WhatsApp or signal, so everybody has the same great chatting experience.

    • ExLisper@linux.community
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      1 year ago

      Said like someone who can’t afford an iPhone…

      Just kidding, I use Samsung myself. It’s crazy how easy it is to brainwash Americans into worshiping their corporate gods. Couple of good ads and they will die for their brand or choice.

    • MostlyGibberish@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It’s rough in the US. Most iPhone users will insist that iMessage is better and refuse to use anything else, and then whine when an android user is in a group chat and none of the features work.

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        1 year ago

        I have several group chats with both android & iPhone users. No one complains. The only place I hear about people complaining is the Internet, never anyone in the wild.

    • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Thank you. Based EU citizens genuinely carrying the US on this issue, and we are looking forward to removable batteries.

      • hihellobyeoh@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Some modern phones still have removable batteries, like my Motorola e5 play, its quite useful if the phone locks up bad, I can pop the battery out to restart it.

    • giant_smeeg@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Yeah same here

      UK. I’ll get the odd joke from an iPhone user but we all use WhatsApp and no one really cares.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Try to use something that’s something other than iOS or Android with Google services.

      (I’m daily driving deGoogled Android, I can live, but just can get sick of all the pressure around world is taking on not having Google Play Store)

      • Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        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.