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78% of Teens Surveyed Own an iPhone, 82% Plan to Purchase
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"Johnnie, you do understand that if I buy this $1,000 iPhone X for you, that you'll be my Bitch for two more years."
"Yes Dad, I understand ... on second thought, I think I'll hold off and get the updated SE in March."
"Yes Dad, I understand ... on second thought, I think I'll hold off and get the updated SE in March."
I didn't notice where it said the teens all had iPhone X.
Buying two iPhone X one for niece the other for nephew.
I pine for an iPhone X in iPhone 4 form factor. I am willing to pay +$1200 for it.
Wait until they need to get the iPhone X with their hard earned ca$h. Then they'll go back to a flip fone!
When I was a teen in the Eighties, our older relatives were bewildered by how many parents would buy their kids TVs, VCRs and CD players—back then, collectively far more expensive than a phone. The oft repeated joke was that "Go to your room!" was no longer a punishment; it was utopia.
These days, parents buying their kids, even preteens, a phone is as self-serving as husbands buying their wives lingerie. They can always keep tabs on them—often through Facebook.
We have purchased iPhones for my daughter. She had a 5C and a 6plus. She did a lot of extracurricular clubs and events in Junior and High school so her having a phone was a must just for scheduling and coordinating transportation to school concerts and plays and the like. We are an Apple household, so iPhones were a no-brainer choice for us. Last year the family (just three of us) all got 7+’s on our family AT&T plan. Since she had a part time job, we made her buy the AppleCare and she had to pay the deductible when she cracked her screen. I realize this may seem like she's spoiled but she's a good kid, gets good grades and such. And my wife and I do well in our jobs so we can afford it. If we didn’t, things would be different. Now that she’s in college, got a decent scholarship and has a better paying campus job, she can buy her next iPhone if she wants to upgrade. And honestly, with the Apple upgrade plan, even a $1000 iPhone isn’t that much per month, in my opinion.
Doesn't really matter if they are all in circulation
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If this was on a google forum with android fans, some apple fan would say the same
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Well, you probably don't have a kids to support, you don't have bills to pay monthly. They are not in current generation that a phone is really now essential to even kids. Imagine that.
"Dad, I'm so sorry to hear that your annual salary is only $7188."
iPhones last and get supported many years after purchase, so they get handed down and kids get hooked on iOS. Genius from Apple.
Also, kids like to go from app to app A LOT. Just watch how kids fly around on their phones. It’s like second nature for them. Apple phones do this wayyy better than Android phones because they are more powerful and smoother/stable. I own Android phones and they just won’t move that fast without lagging or crashing.
Also, kids like to go from app to app A LOT. Just watch how kids fly around on their phones. It’s like second nature for them. Apple phones do this wayyy better than Android phones because they are more powerful and smoother/stable. I own Android phones and they just won’t move that fast without lagging or crashing.
Whoaaa! Hold on! I was told the iPhone was a luxury item!!! How can this be when you have so many little kiddies in elementary through high school owning such a serious adult device. Ohhh, I see now.
not that it's a huge difference but..
teenagers aren't in elementary school.. and they're usually still teenagers for a year or two out of high school.
(like-- i was 13 in 8th grade and graduated high school when i was 17.. then for two more years after that, still a teenager... ie- i was legally an adult and a teenager at the same time.. so was everybody else)
Wow so many people saying the iPhone is terrible! First of all want are you doing here?
And second my iPhone 6 does everything I need and more and it’s old! I wouldn’t change the ability to keep a phone for that long still getting software updates, for some buggy Frankenstein platform, witch steals ALL you data. And if corse sells to the highest bidder.
And second my iPhone 6 does everything I need and more and it’s old! I wouldn’t change the ability to keep a phone for that long still getting software updates, for some buggy Frankenstein platform, witch steals ALL you data. And if corse sells to the highest bidder.
Lots of people make less, at least this guy has a kid he can sell for medical experimentation.
Apple has found its new cool , from providing the best user experience to providing leading edge emoji - catering to the masses - hail the new Sony ! All the cool kids must have a Walkman!
Apple + Nike = ultimate cool !
For all the talk of diversity , check out the iPhone X marketing ...... young hip people . Tsk tsk Apple ....
https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone-x/
Apple + Nike = ultimate cool !
For all the talk of diversity , check out the iPhone X marketing ...... young hip people . Tsk tsk Apple ....
https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone-x/
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Now i get the animoji and other BS they're focusing on...
Iphone does not necessary mean extremely high price. Last year I bought my 10 yo daughter a 5c and my 16yo son a SE, both refurbished at good prices (200 and 400 Euro). I expect them to last at least 3 years for what they do with it. I don´t think this is much more expensive than going the Android route, and I feel safer with them using iOS.