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1/3 of my kids have iPhone. The use of iPhones amongst them and their peers is directly related to their level of IT/Tech knowhow. Long story short the kids on

1/3 of my kids have iPhone. The use of iPhones amongst them and their peers is directly related to their level of IT/Tech knowhow. Long story short the kids on android are probably gonna wind up building the tech the kids on apple consume. Or atleast that's how it's playing out amongst them atm. iPhone kids legit just take photos and short vidyas mostly of themselves. It's like you can correlate an iPhone with a toxic level of vanity and a lack of technical literacy amongst the teens.

TobyTheDog123 4y ago
What a weird generalization.
- KerrAvon 4y ago
  Ironically, it's a very Silicon Valley privileged child POV. The anecdotal observation is that some smart kids, usually the hardware-oriented tinkerers, use Androids because they're more customizable. It's certainly not universal.
robbyking 4y ago
Since we're trading anecdotes, none of the iOS engineers on my team have Android phones, but about half of the Android engineers have iPhones.
- KerrAvon 4y ago
  That's insane -- your engineers should be dogfooding their stuff. It's 2022.
  - robbyking 4y ago
    In theory I agree, but we have something like 10k employees and millions of users per platform per day, so our code is pretty well vetted.
  - turtlebits 4y ago
    If you’re talking personal phones, that should have no bearing on your job. Your employer should give you the devices you need to do your work.
  - chris_wot 4y ago
    What they do with their own personal devices is their decision.
mymythisisthis 4y ago
But the kids with the iPhones will be the financier controlling the purse strings. See the Commodore vs. IBM clones vs. Mac in the early 1980s. Apple wins because wealthy people use them, it's Apple's advantage.
- klyrs 4y ago
  I guarantee that kids who grow up to be financiers won't be a significant fraction of the 87%. Just like kids wearing Air Jordans when I was in school didn't all grow up to be pro ball players.
  - robbyking 4y ago
    It's at least arguable that kids that grow up with the means to afford new iPhones will be more likely to have the means to go to a good college.
    - klyrs 4y ago
      No disagreement there, but cargo-culting the iPhone isn't going to give poor kids rich parents
- mbernstein 4y ago
  What's your evidence that Apple "won" because of computers bought by rich families in the 80s because last I knew after the mid 90s Apple got (checks notes) massacred in the computing world by Microsoft and the rest and really only won in the mid 2000's via consumer electronics with the creation of new markets that they've largely dominated since.
dagmx 4y ago
The irony that your own post displays a toxic level of vanity regarding technical competency but projects it onto the children.
imperialdrive 4y ago
Android is definitely the road less traveled and I could totally get that kids using them would correlate with a larger mental toolbox.
369548684892826 4y ago
Doesn't match what I see. Tech knowhow is more likely correlated to whether the kid has a laptop or PC to play with rather than what OS is on their phone.
- gtvwill 4y ago
  The iPhone ownership tends to roll on to the laptop/compute choice. And much lulz the apple kids are basically stuck in the realm of fisher price kids computers using apple. They watch on in awe as the normal pcs play games, open any program they want and so on. Tbh I actually find it quite depressing. I setup online games and score free stuff for the kids and half their mates can't even participate cus they are cucked by apples stubbornness and general refusal to play ball w the rest of the world. Been on a slow mission to donate them all pcs. I run a micro msp so I get used gear regularly. Theyre all getting exposure to Linux too cus why the hell not.
rejectfinite 4y ago
Based.
- nozzlegear 4y ago
  Based on what?
currenciessfe 4y ago
But in their free time the android people building the tech stacks will be watching the iPhone influencers.

TobyTheDog123 4y ago

What a weird generalization.

KerrAvon 4y ago
Ironically, it's a very Silicon Valley privileged child POV. The anecdotal observation is that some smart kids, usually the hardware-oriented tinkerers, use Androids because they're more customizable. It's certainly not universal.

robbyking 4y ago

Since we're trading anecdotes, none of the iOS engineers on my team have Android phones, but about half of the Android engineers have iPhones.

KerrAvon 4y ago
That's insane -- your engineers should be dogfooding their stuff. It's 2022.
- robbyking 4y ago
  In theory I agree, but we have something like 10k employees and millions of users per platform per day, so our code is pretty well vetted.
- turtlebits 4y ago
  If you’re talking personal phones, that should have no bearing on your job. Your employer should give you the devices you need to do your work.
- chris_wot 4y ago
  What they do with their own personal devices is their decision.

mymythisisthis 4y ago

But the kids with the iPhones will be the financier controlling the purse strings. See the Commodore vs. IBM clones vs. Mac in the early 1980s. Apple wins because wealthy people use them, it's Apple's advantage.

klyrs 4y ago
I guarantee that kids who grow up to be financiers won't be a significant fraction of the 87%. Just like kids wearing Air Jordans when I was in school didn't all grow up to be pro ball players.
- robbyking 4y ago
  It's at least arguable that kids that grow up with the means to afford new iPhones will be more likely to have the means to go to a good college.
  - klyrs 4y ago
    No disagreement there, but cargo-culting the iPhone isn't going to give poor kids rich parents
mbernstein 4y ago
What's your evidence that Apple "won" because of computers bought by rich families in the 80s because last I knew after the mid 90s Apple got (checks notes) massacred in the computing world by Microsoft and the rest and really only won in the mid 2000's via consumer electronics with the creation of new markets that they've largely dominated since.

dagmx 4y ago

The irony that your own post displays a toxic level of vanity regarding technical competency but projects it onto the children.

imperialdrive 4y ago

Android is definitely the road less traveled and I could totally get that kids using them would correlate with a larger mental toolbox.

369548684892826 4y ago

Doesn't match what I see. Tech knowhow is more likely correlated to whether the kid has a laptop or PC to play with rather than what OS is on their phone.

gtvwill 4y ago
The iPhone ownership tends to roll on to the laptop/compute choice. And much lulz the apple kids are basically stuck in the realm of fisher price kids computers using apple. They watch on in awe as the normal pcs play games, open any program they want and so on. Tbh I actually find it quite depressing. I setup online games and score free stuff for the kids and half their mates can't even participate cus they are cucked by apples stubbornness and general refusal to play ball w the rest of the world. Been on a slow mission to donate them all pcs. I run a micro msp so I get used gear regularly. Theyre all getting exposure to Linux too cus why the hell not.

rejectfinite 4y ago

Based.

nozzlegear 4y ago
Based on what?

currenciessfe 4y ago

But in their free time the android people building the tech stacks will be watching the iPhone influencers.