Most people tend to lease their phones these days and pay in installments. Most teens are also on their parents cellular accounts and are eligible for regular upgrades as well. As long as the monthly payments aren't much more expensive the increase in iPhone price won't matter to many.
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76% of U.S. Teens Surveyed Using iPhones, 81% Plan to Purchase
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kemal
macrumors 68000
Where do you think mommy's and daddy's one year old iPhones go when they upgrade?
avanpelt
macrumors 68030
How is Nike sitting at 9% of fitness bands and Apple is at 10%? Didn't Nike kill off their Fuel Bands a year or two ago and start collaborating with Apple to produce the Nike edition of the Apple Watch? Are there still that many Fuel Bands in use? That being said, I'd much rather let my teenager use a defunct Nike product as opposed to an Apple product that starts at $269 when purchased new.
Yet another ignorant few who automatically assume rich parents spoil kids.
Ever consider the fact that iPhones are indeed superior in usability, convenience, streamline experiences and app store content? Not that "well I got an iPhone because I don't have to pay" but "I got one because _ _ _ and _ and right now my parents or I can pay merely $30 a month for it."
macduke
macrumors G5
Now that the two platforms have pretty decent feature parity (Siri intelligence and a few remaining cloud issues aside), for most people it comes down to two things: Does it look nice and is it easy. Apple almost always wins that war. For teens, the iPhone is more prestigious than an Android phone because of the price. You're just not gonna find an iPhone 7 anywhere for more than $50 off, and even a 6s is relatively pricey. Although Samsung is charging a lot more for the S8, so who knows—I don't think that will pay off at all, especially after the battery debacle. Samsung is not synonymous with quality for most people. Since this study pertains to the U.S., the only real Android brand left that most people consider is Samsung, and parents with teens are more cautious by nature. They don't want their kid to explode, or their house to burn down. So even if they wanted a Samsung, I imagine a lot of parents wouldn't buy it. I'd spend more for my kids to have an iPhone, or just give them my old one every year, but I'm probably an outlier.
Yep. Parents will fork over the money to keep the brats from whining. The teens are not spending their hard earned money of those devices.
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My spoiled nephews have newer phones that their parents.
TechZeke
macrumors 68020
Or you could just spend your money on whatever smartphone you want and not give a ****. That works too.
TheChemist
macrumors regular
I agree to an extent Carlos, but it's likely more about emoji's than it is iMessage for teenagers.
Sorry to step into your discussion, but if I remember correctly, the original intent for all of these iDevices was to tempt you and get the device plus a Mac, and make the latter the center of your "digital lifestyle." Along came the cloud and it slowly set the Mac aside.
I still have my 2008 iMac with the iPhone 3GS as companion and it's still fun to "manually" manage my iPhone via the Mac.
ThisBougieLife
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Yes that is true.. When Apple decided to put Firewire on the MacPro's, B&W G3, Final Cut Pro was under DEV with macromedia and macromedia canned it.. Apple bought it from them because Firewire was being used for DV video. So Steve wanted to sell people these towers.. I think Steve wanted to sell you gadgets, but he also want you to have a computer as your center of the digital universe.
Ladybug
macrumors 68000
Well you got me there. With rumors being the next iPhone will cost upwards of $1000 and most teens wanting the latest I just assumed they wouldn't want to buy an older model. But then this article and the graphs are about 2017 iPhones with oled so I dunno. Anyway thanks.
Pman17
macrumors 6502
I'm sure the parents have iPhones and they want to be able to track their kids with Find My Friends app. Idk what's the reason these days, best to survey teens with iPhones. I had it in school just because the iPhone was the best smart phone at the time because everyone just transitioned from the iPod. The cool kids had an iPod, it was kind of a fashion statement.
Another thing, you don't see Samsungs in movies or TV shows, its always an iPhone or Mac with the logo covered. Those texting disclaimers in movie theaters have that familiar iMessage sound effect when sending and texting.
Another thing, you don't see Samsungs in movies or TV shows, its always an iPhone or Mac with the logo covered. Those texting disclaimers in movie theaters have that familiar iMessage sound effect when sending and texting.
ActionableMango
macrumors G3
Those rumors are for the price of a new premium segment model.
I could be wrong, but I wouldn't expect much of a change to the pricing structure for the normal, existing model lines when they are updated this year.
and just how were these surveyed people chosen?
Meaningless stat.
69Mustang
macrumors 604
My 17 year old daughter is one of those iPhone/Fitbit teens. My wife is an iPhone/Fit bit user as well... just not a teen. My 11 year old is J7/Fitbit owner. I'm an S7/married so don't have to bother with exercise cuz superior genetics owner. 17 year old is moving up to my wife's 6S from her 6 since my wife's job is upgrading her phone. Apple is losing one. My wife opted for an S8 this year cuz, of all things, a headphone jack. Go figure.
Michael Scrip
macrumors G3
My iPhone 6S Plus 64GB had a retail price of $850... but I didn't have to pay $850 all at once.
My carrier let me add a device payment of $35/mo to whatever I'm paying for service.
I suspect most parents are doing that for their teens.
Let's be honest... the iPhone has always been "expensive" in the grand scheme of things.
Yet 76% of teens surveyed have iPhones?
Clearly the parents are OK with getting their teens iPhones.
Or else this survey took place in Beverly Hills 😀
smirking
macrumors 601
Well, go with the 4% and you'll be in the company of people who think boot camp is fun.
Oh man, FireWire! It was such a huge difference for the iPod as well as audio and video purposes. My second Mac was an iMac DV SE, and I had an external 7,200rpm FireWire HD for my Pro Tools LE setup (original Digidesign MBox.) I had hooked up to that iMac DV the MBox via USB, a matching translucent graphite CD burner, a Korg Trinity workstation, the FW HD, and the Trinity controlling Pro Tools LE with the built in transport. You could use at least 6 high quality reverbs (not really necessary, just to brag about) on that PT setup and it wouldn't break a sweat all because of the FW bandwidth. If you tried that on the iMac internal HD, at the most you would get 3 reverbs streaming the audio directly from disk.
I don't do audio anymore, and have simplified music to a hobby using Kontakt 5, the Vintage Steinway D sample library and a combo of Garageband or MainStage to record or practice with a Yamaha digital piano and a 2015 11" MacBook Air. It all uses USB 3 and SSD. Who would've thought you could run heavy piano sample libraries on such a compact and "weak" setup?
I hope this doesn't turn into a thread crapping on teens just because we have ones like that awful "cash me ousside" beast stealing headlines.
I know my own and some of her friends have given up a lot of normal kid activities since early childhood to support loved ones who fought back from numerous cancers, heart attacks, strokes, surgeries. The most grace and strength I have ever seen a person exhibit was from a 12 year old at my daughter's school whose mom lost her long battle with ovarian cancer.
Teens in my county are required to do many hours of community service in order to graduate and teachers I've talked to say most of them take it seriously.
Other parents and I got our kids iPhones so they could take part in group chats that we can supervise and not worry as much about data mining, bullying or exposure to wider uncontrolled environments in other chat and social media apps that we would have to allow if we went to Android. Yes it's more money, but it's money well spent. And iPhones survive a lot kids can dish out if they are in a good case!
As some of you might know, I'm actually quite fond of Android phones for myself. But I'm really happy to have the kids stay on iMessage and have less risk of malware and such on iPhones. The much insulted basic interface on an iPhone also makes it so easy for me to check what's installed and what's been going on during my frequent "trust but verify" raids. 😉
I know my own and some of her friends have given up a lot of normal kid activities since early childhood to support loved ones who fought back from numerous cancers, heart attacks, strokes, surgeries. The most grace and strength I have ever seen a person exhibit was from a 12 year old at my daughter's school whose mom lost her long battle with ovarian cancer.
Teens in my county are required to do many hours of community service in order to graduate and teachers I've talked to say most of them take it seriously.
Other parents and I got our kids iPhones so they could take part in group chats that we can supervise and not worry as much about data mining, bullying or exposure to wider uncontrolled environments in other chat and social media apps that we would have to allow if we went to Android. Yes it's more money, but it's money well spent. And iPhones survive a lot kids can dish out if they are in a good case!
As some of you might know, I'm actually quite fond of Android phones for myself. But I'm really happy to have the kids stay on iMessage and have less risk of malware and such on iPhones. The much insulted basic interface on an iPhone also makes it so easy for me to check what's installed and what's been going on during my frequent "trust but verify" raids. 😉
Stella
macrumors G3
Yes they did.
Maybe teenagers don't realize this yet, or the survey is flawed by offering a product option answer that is no longer available.
Actually now ours go to grandma and grandpa and Aunty.
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Lol, not from what I can see. The kids will send ME emojis but apparently it's considered rude to do so amongst themselves after one of the girls spammed everyone with the most obnoxious page of emojis I have ever seen. Tim and Phil would've been so excited.
That was two years ago and they all still have a very strict peer pressure thing going on restricting each other to a handful of emojis per chat. And nobody uses stickers. I'm told that's for old people like me and my dad. Er, what now? 😕😱
Sheesh. Witness your parents in a sticker bomb war and end up scarred for life, I guess. 🙄