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Gen Z is ditching iPhones for $100 'feature phones,' and the numbers don't lie

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fne8w2ah@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.zdnet.com/article/gen-z-are-ditching-iphones-for-100-feature-phones-and-the-numbers-dont-lie/

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  • coffinwood@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No they don’t. What a rubbish clickbait article.

    All they say is that there’s a (niche) trend of a few people using feature phones with expected combined sales of $2.8 million. Versus the $200 billions of iPhones alone.

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    • Bonehead@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They weren't entirely wrong. The numbers don't lie. They just don't say what the author claims it does.

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      • coffinwood@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s directly in the headline: Gen Z is ditching the iPhone. That’s incorrect in two ways: A) it’s at best one in fifty people buying aforementioned feature phones and B) they don’t even know if all buyers replace their existing phone or buy it as an additional handset.

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    • zephr_c@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, the title is clickbaity, but what title isn’t at this point? The actual point of the article is just that there is a small but growing niche of younger people switching to feature phones. I think that’s neat, and I’m starting to consider a feature phone for my next phone myself.

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      • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Just because a lot of stuff is shitty doesn't mean we shouldn't complain when things are shitty.

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    • generalpotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks. Exactly what I thought.

      “tHe NuMbErS doN’t LiE”

      “Numbers” are some paltry bs that are “expected to grow in 2023” like BTC was “expected to hit a $100k in 2020”.

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    • deleted@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Welcome to news in Lemmy

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  • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doubt.

    Haven’t seen a flip phone in use in ages and I work among the public. Even the barely functional elderly on smartphones.

    Who paid for this article? What’s their angle?

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just the other day I saw an article with the exact opposite headline about how Gen z is sticking with the iPhone. Now I don’t know which one is full of shit.

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      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It was about how Gen Z are rejecting “droids” in favor of iPhones

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      • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Playing_both_sides.jpg

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  • Magister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I though genZ only bought iPhone because of the green bubble or something?

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    • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And i thought 90% of them have brain damage in general…

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    • regalia@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That was never true to begin with

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  • skymtf@pricefield.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t trust these numbers, I really don’t trust any article that talks about my generation.

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  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For the past 10 years I never bought a phone for more than 300 euros.

    I usually get a new phone every 3 years to have the latest tech and donate or recycle the old one.

    For the last year I had an iPhone 13 pro (usually goes around 1100 euro) as a work phone and my personal Redmi Note 11 Pro I bought for 270 euros and not once I told myself: Man, this iphone is at least 3 times better than my Xiaomi. It’s clearly a premium product but a middle category budget phone can match most features and even more. I still have a headphone jack, IR blaster and an amazing fingerprint sensor.

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    • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      iphone was clever marketing scheme to become a status symbol for a generation that no longer has a car as one.

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      • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And that’s why you shouldn’t buy those things new. If you really really want one, get a used one. Sure, it’s a few years old, but it’s fine as long as it’s still updated. Besides, you’re paying only a fraction of what it was when it was released.

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    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ya, this pretty much me. I had a bad experience with the budget pixel. Wouldn’t recommend them… But otherwise haven’t really missed out on having a top end flagship phone at all.

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    • genoxidedev1@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yup, I'm on the Redmi train as well, got a Redmi Note 10, will probably upgrade next month or this month depending on how much money I have left after all expenses. Had it for 2 years or something and it has a crack throughout a good length of the screen otherwise I'd keep it even longer. Cost me 200 € new.

      May just get the same phone you got or a newer one/alternative if I find one until then. -> Probably the Note 12 (Pro, if the features are worth it), looking at GSMArena right now. Rooting it again will be annoying though

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      • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Had it for 2 years or something and it has a crack throughout a good length of the screen otherwise I’d keep it even longer.

        buying cheap screen covers from dealextreme, 20 pieces at a dollar per piece, is what kept my mi max 3 running for 5 years and counting. it still has enough power for anything i do on it and i don’t plan throwing it away anytime soon.

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    • severien@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cheap smartphones are an incredible value. My wife bought a 180 EUR Realme 7 about 3 years ago, and it’s still working great, it’s plenty fast for everyday things (she’s not a gamer), has 8 GB RAM …

      One thing you really need to compromise on are the cameras. But the problem is that I’m a sucker for cameras, so I keep buying expensive flagships …

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      • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        maybe you would be better buying an actual camera. there are some really good compact cameras that aren’t necessarily heavy

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  • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This same BS headline happens every generation. As soon as any small trends form, the media latch onto it like it's gonna be the next big thing...

    No, feature phones aren't gaining mass adoption again. No, feature phones aren't going to kill smartphones. It's just a subset of people deciding to downgrade, or who want to buy a secondary phone.

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  • EnderWi99in@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is a thing that isn't happening, at least not among Gen Z. What a bullshit article.

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    • at_an_angle@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As a millennial, the thought of ditching my smartphone is a thought that keeps coming up.

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      • betternotbigger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I did it for 3 months. I really enjoyed my time doing it and learned a lot about my usage. It was a cheap $50 experiment. After I went back to my smartphone, I uninstalled ALL social media apps. Turned off ALL notifications but left calls and messages as an exception. My smartphone is now essentially a feature phone. It’s not 100% the same since the big screen does lure you in to use it but my usage is still way down and because I don’t have any social media there’s no reason for me to be on my phone around other people. I wholeheartedly recommend trying it for those curious.

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      • jesterkun@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Same. I’m beginning to hate having it.

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      • OrgunDonor@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Eh, I don't like the idea of getting rid of my smart phone. But I did get rid of all the shit I didnt actually like. I use my phone for Music, maps, the camera, messaging a few people, and a few other things. I got rid of all the crap social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, even reddit(and have not put a lemmy/kbin app on there to replace it), there is not shit mobile games installed. Just does what I need it to do, and doesnt constantly bug me about Person X and what they had for lunch.

        However, if I ditched the smart phone, I would need a phone still, but then I still need the MP3 player, a camera. And I would much rather have 1 bit of kit that does all that well, that 3.

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  • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A $200 smartphone does the same, but the article is about feature phones.

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    • VM_Abrantes@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hell, 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?

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    • glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s more about wanting to take a break from looking at a screen and watching shitty ads for so many hours per day.

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  • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I was not disabled with way too much time to burn, and where the weight of a phone is ideal, I would go back to a dumb flip phone like this. Smart phones are an addiction that, at best, must be consciously managed. Heck, I’m beside my workstation procrastinating right now.

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    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s after 1AM and I’m meant to be sleeping…what the heck am I doing? I’ll put the phone down now, just after I post this comment and maybe just refresh my front page one more time.

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  • PierreKanazawa@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If only that's allowed as a choice.

    So many places assume you have a smartphone, and so many stuffs require one

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    • danhab99@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s no rule that says flip phones aren’t allowed to have google pay. I think it’d be cool to see what a current year not-smartphone would look like.

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  • rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This I wish, but I doubt. I still have my old Garmin GPS and play with the idea of a flip phone but I’ve been spoiled by the smaller things like iMessage not dealing with MMS. It’s an idea I come back to occasionally, but I also think about going back to my Palm with AAA batteries for my PIM needs. Had one in semi-regular-use as recent as 2018!

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    • blivet@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I used to have an orange Handspring Visor PIM, which ran the Palm OS, and my friend topped me by buying the phone module for hers. It seemed excitingly futuristic at the time.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m looking at my Palm T|X or my Psion Revo as two potential revives. The Psion was quite awesome.

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  • LinuxSBC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Relevant xkcd

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  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The games are better for one.

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  • spiritedpause@lemmy-u6723.vm.elestio.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Get this removeded clickbait garbage off my feed OP

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  • regalia@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    These articles of “Gen Z is doing X” is always wrong lol.

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  • binboupan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Personally I switched to a Qin F22 Pro to curb my smartphone addiction. Only have the essential apps installed on it. So far it has worked out well (I used to have a screen time of over 6 hours every day, now just minutes). Life feels so much more peaceful without all the notification spam I used to get, and my mind is definitely more clear now.

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    • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Does it run telegram and google hangouts?

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      • binboupan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It runs Android so yes. Don’t use Google Services myself.

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  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I heard cassettes are making a comeback too.

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    • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Vinyl did lol didn’t expect that one. So maybe.

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      • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It did, but I really didn’t.

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  • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve considered doing this in combination with a Pine phone or other impractical but cool linux phone so that I don’t have to worry about not having at least reliable SMS and calling.

    Anyone know if there is a tiny dumb phone out there that doubles as a 4G/5G hotspot?

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  • Reva@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I just don’t buy new ones. I have a Nokia E90 Communicator and that’s it.

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  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I want an Android phone with a full physical keyboard, blackberry style. Not sure if I want to ‘digital detox’ but I don’t value a lot of what our common phone design has to offer.

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    • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here ya go, mate www.amazon.com/…/B0841HHLT9?ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fo…

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      • sethadam1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ooh running that shiny new Android 10! I wonder if it’s easily updatable and/or if there are images available.

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      • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ooooo!

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  • Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Havent seen “$100 feature phone” since 2017 when my grandpa upgraded his phone
    - gen z

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