Well it's obvious, in the US at least. iMessage is like 99% of the reason. Everyone using iMessage to group chat, facetime, etc. Then there are some of the non obvious. Remember when Instagram and snapchat took a screenshot of the screen instead of using the camera? That was embarrassing. Then you've got Airpods and Apple watch, those speak for themselves. The only decent tablets, if you listed the top 5 would all be iPads.
Android has nothing to pull teenagers away from iPhones. But you can sideload and play emulators and customize the launcher! You might say, but in the end they want to have a group chat with friends and not be limited to 20 because one friend has an android. Or facetime and not use whatever Google decided to name their new messaging app 20 minutes ago. Blue vs Green is real and there's nothing Android can do about it other than lobby the government to open iMessage to android, and I don't see that happening in the US, maybe in the EU but there I think whatsapp took over and it's cross platform.
> You might say, but in the end they want to have a group chat with friends and not be limited to 20 because one friend has an android.
Isn't the group chat limit of 20 set by the carrier though, and not by the OS? Shouldn't people be complaining to their carriers? Also, RCS solves this limitation, not that it matters on iOS.
Sure, but are teenagers going to write to their carrier asking for more people in a group chat, if they even figure that information out?
There are basically no solutions to this problem. Android will never be cool to teenagers, the lock-in started early, and will trickle down for decades.
Android has nothing to pull teenagers away from iPhones. But you can sideload and play emulators and customize the launcher! You might say, but in the end they want to have a group chat with friends and not be limited to 20 because one friend has an android. Or facetime and not use whatever Google decided to name their new messaging app 20 minutes ago. Blue vs Green is real and there's nothing Android can do about it other than lobby the government to open iMessage to android, and I don't see that happening in the US, maybe in the EU but there I think whatsapp took over and it's cross platform.