Ask your 16 year old please if he is BU

[HerderofDragons]

16 year old DS needs a new (to him it will be a refurbished decent second hand) phone. This apparantly has to be a iphone as a Samsung is, I quote, "social suicide" and that "just about every 16 year old in the UK would agree".

I am deliberately leaving out vital details like who is paying (though it is fair to say neither he nor I are rolling in cash) to get a pure opinion poll on his statement please. Obviously he clearly is being VU but if you have a 16 year can you ask them if they think he is BU please?
Is he being unreasonable?

Sounds like something someone who can’t afford an iPhone would say 😂

My 16 year old (in Manchester) said she doesn't care what people think, she's just bought herself a new (lower end) samsung.

My ds had Samsung phones up to his last upgrade when he got a Google Pixel 8.

As an adult, I think Android is social suicide. As someone regularly around teenagers in schools, your son is right.

😂😂😂😂

My 17yo thinks iPhones are rubbish. He has a brand new Google Pixel. His little sister, has been sucked into the iPhone thing and has a refurbed old iPhone. We are hoping she will grow out of it!

My techy friends were all on Pixels last time I went on holiday with them. It was actually hilarious everyone had the same phone, so they kept getting mixed up.

Edit: rogue emoji and posted too soon.

My 15 and 20 year old have iphones and wouldn't have anything else. Dh and I have Samsungs.

Mine are only allowed an iPhone if they are paying for it. If I'm paying - it's a £150 Samsung.

Not really. My DS could afford an iPhone but he's into tech so knows Google pixels are way better. We all know youngsters (and maybe older people according to this thread) just want iPhones because they're 'cool' 😂

17yo ds has always had a Samsung. His choice. But then, he doesn't care what randoms think.

My 16 year old had to check to see what brand his phone is (Samsung, as it happens). He says that none of his friends are shallow twats, so nobody cares about what brand of anything anyone else has.

DS slightly older than 16 but still a teen. Used to get our cast off iPhones. When he could buy his own he bought a Samsung and doesn’t want anything Apple related

Yeah, he really can though

DS1, 16, hates all things apple and spends quite a lot of time telling me how awful my iPhone is.

3 daughters and 3 nieces, 5 used iPhones and 1 uses a Samsung

My 3 wouldn’t be caught dead with an Android. I couldn’t use one either. Just asked them here and none of their friends use Android. Seems loads do though going by this thread.

100% IPhone
Simply put better technology/security/durability/build quality.

My DS has an iPhone, I don't know any teen with an Android phone, although they have a variety of older and newer iPhones.
As an Android fan myself, I'm quite heartened to hear iPhone aren't the goto young person's phone.

‘Proper techies’ definitely do have iPhones- if my software developer DH with 25 years industry experience is anything to go by!
And incidentally when he spent a day at Google he noticed they all had iPhones…

Nope.

Ds,14, has a Motorola. He's never really forgiven us, but the reviews for a similar Samsung priced one showed Motorola to be better.i don't know why he's so bothered; it's not like he's anywhere near cool anyway. I've always had Samsung. Love them. Dh is a recent convert.

I don’t necessarily think iPhones are the best, but I do have one as it syncs with my iPad. But I don’t think Samsung are better, I expect some non descript android is actually better. We’ve had Samsung phones and they just seemed clunky.

15 year old dd here and nothing other than an iPhone is acceptable! Seems to vary a lot then.

Mine not bothered by make as long as it works