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?

My last Samsung was a flip phone. I’m now on iPhone as the experience was so bad.

The phone broke within weeks and I am very careful, EE wanted nothing to do with it, suggested I go to a Samsung store, 40 miles away as the local one had shut down. They took it away and it came back broke even more! They took no responsibility and it gave up the ghost eventually. I had been a Samsung customer for 15+ years but made the switch.

I work in tech and the majority of our technical teams use iPhones, as do we for company phones.

My 11, 15 and 19 year old all say he isn't being unreasonable.

My 16 year old niece has a Samsung (and is very much part of the 'cool kids' at school etc 😆)

Ds 17 has a Samsung and is incredibly grateful to have a phone at all that he doesn't pay for.

Tell him to check his privilege.

I have a flip phone and the battery life is terrible. I miss my S22!

16 year old has Samsung, 18 only ever had iPhone personal preference

My 15 year old doesn't even have a phone. This is his choice by the way. Is he the only one?

DD 18 - iPhone
DS 22 - iPhone
Me 45 - iPhone (and a work Samsung)

Just asked my 15yo

She said iphones are embarrassing, for people with no personality

😬

The market is massive these days. Just choose one that fits your requirements

You don't mind not being able to reach him if he's gone on the bus or train into the nearest city or something?

Aren’t you a quirky little thing

My 16 year old says, "Get a life - iPhones are crap and no one with any self respect uses them any more and it your friends judge you for not having an iPhone, they're not your friends".

He may have grown up in an apple hating household 😂

He has a Pixel 8 Pro and wouldn't have anything else.

I don’t know about ‘social suicide’ but I do know most people are firmly in one camp or another. If he’s used to using an iPhone, a Samsung will be hard to get the hang of, they’re quite different in lots of ways.

Just get him an iPhone

We have both IPhones and Samsung in this house. It depends what you use your phone for which is better.

I don’t see any reason to not get him the iPhone

I hope this is a joke 😂

If he REALLY wants to look cool, he should have one of these..

Your daughter sounds fantastic ☺️

You may as well start a thread about which is the better gaming system out of the X Box, PlayStation or PC.

Each has their own pros and cons, it depends what you primarily use it for and what functions you value the most. If he’s asked for an iPhone then that’s his preference and if you can afford a decent refurb then honestly I’d just get it.

Mine has an iPhone, as do all her friends. I don't think any of them are particularly bothered but my daughter says iPhones are definitely seen as better at her school.

My 13, 17, and 18 year old have iPhone and have no Interest in Samsung or any other brand - very much invested in the hype obviously 😂

My DS went out today to buy himself a new iPhone (not the newest one out) but he's saved up from his 2 jobs, they are still really popular here (we aren't in the U.K.) all his friends have iPhones.

At 16 isn't he working a summer job so he can just save and buy what he wants?

My 16 year old is quite into technology and has a lot of pretty cool stuff - he has a Samsung because it is a better phone. iPhone is style over substance. It's the brand name cool factor, rather than a brilliantly designed piece of technology.