Gen Z is ditching iPhones for $100 'feature phones,' and the numbers don't lie
Gen Z is ditching iPhones for $100 'feature phones,' and the numbers don't lie
Gen Z and millennials have become the unlikely heroes to revive the slow-fading phone market in the US, according to Counterpoint Research.
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They all realized a $100 phone does the same shit as a $1500 phone... There is nothing they add to the expensive phones that justify the price
18 12 ReplyA $200 smartphone does the same, but the article is about feature phones.
22 0 ReplyHell, with all of the features that are being removed these days, there's no justification for the price.
Now that LG is out of the market, I had to get a Nokia smartphone just to get an external microSD card slot and aux port.
$1000+ phone with capped internal memory for the purpose of pushing subscription cloud storage? Or a $300 phone with expandable physical storage?
5 0 ReplyIt's more about wanting to take a break from looking at a screen and watching shitty ads for so many hours per day.
4 0 ReplyPeople need to (re)discover adblockers and alternative apps.
- Firefox+uBlock Origin takes care of nearly all ads on the web.
- NewPipe Lets you watch YouTube without ads (and lets you download videos).
- Pixelfed is like insta without the ads (or people, lets be honest, but you gotta be the change you want to see)
- Mastodon is twitter without ads
- Lemmy reddit without ads
We have the tools and technology, its just a matter of people making the move, but that's hard because of the network effect.
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