87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by digitallyfree on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:04PM (#33184196)

I'd call it a win if you get them into rooting and custom distros like Lineage (which might give them a better overall appreciation of how tech works, encourage them to tinker, etc.)

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by belkarx on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:24PM (#33184470)

With big-tech algorithms working against that, weakening their minds so they just accept the easy, clean route of what is put in front of them /s ... good luck :-)

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by smcleod on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:11PM (#33184292)

This is a fair comment, I agree in principal I think.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by digitallyfree on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:25PM (#33185631)

Yeah, I wish there were good Linux options for handheld touch devices. Though I'll have to say that Android rooting as well as Hackintosh experiments (among other things) definitely paved the way for me running Linux fulltime and going into the engineering field. Lineage and others still let you use the standard social apps so you can communicate, while providing a platform to experiment and debug when things go wrong.

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