Not entirely surprising. All it takes is an ad from Samsung making owning an iPhone seem uncool.
Done. Instantly uncool.
Teenagers can be sheep, easily manipulated through advertising and their need to fit in and seem cool.
Actually not unlike the average consumer either. Hence why everyone advertises. And Samsung has spent way more than anyone else. I still think they managed to work their magic on the Android community and paint themselves the poor little company fight the big evil Apple empire. I'm still amazed that folks have fallen for that given that Samsung is a much bigger conglomerate that makes everything, is 20% of the South Korean GDP, is run by a criminal convicted of bribery and miraculously 'pardoned', whose business ethics see nothing wrong imitating patented ideas as closely as possible.
Spot on, teens are the easiest to advertise too, they are simple minded still. Two years ago, Apple and iPhone was the be all, end all smartphone, nothing else even existed in their minds. If it wasn't an iPhone, it wasn't a true smartphone to them.
Now, that's over with the teen crowd I know. Today it's about the Galaxy S3 and Note II, and to this same crowd, the iPhone has become their parents phone, and looked at as uncool and "Out" phone.
Funny how quick that opinion changed in just a couple of years.
I am serious, but if Apple just sticks to the same old same old, they will become RIM in five years, wondering how they slipped from top dog, to second or third place. Mainly iOS needs a revamp ASAP, a fresh new UI is a must. And then a slightly larger screen too, they should go at least to 4.3" 16.9 screen.