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78% of Teens Surveyed Own an iPhone, 82% Plan to Purchase

makingdots said:
You didn't get my point why your parents obliged to give you a flip phone. They got kids to financially support, family to feed, they are not in the generation where we all know that a phone is really now essential. Flip phone really a essential? rofl, that basic function is just to flirt or get influenced and strayed away too much by your friends.
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What's your problem? Jelly? I was merely stating that it's funny how they never bought me a phone and I ended up buying them one in the end. Really feel the need to start an argument over that?

Flip phones were popular at one point prior to smartphones you know.
 
mrkramer said:
Are that many kids parents actually buying them new phones? I get handing your old iPhone down, but I have a hard time imagining that that many parents are willing to spend $1000 on a phone for their kid to check Facebook.
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Perhaps you don't get how shallow the newer generations are. That includes teen moms but also early 20s parents who are in their late 30s today.
 
This thread is ridiculous. Have any of you people ever been to a large store with a blue and yellow sign called "Wal-Mart"? They sell iPhones on prepaid starting at $129 for the SE, and I believe $199 for the 6. Yes, a lot of people are buying the 8 or X through a postpaid carrier, but for people who don't make a lot of money, there are more affordable ways to get iPhones. Also, iPhones last a lot longer than Android devices, so they can be handed down through the family for several years before they are obsolete.

And for all of you complaining "back when I was xyz age", when I was in high school in the mid-2000's, most people, including myself, had flip phones that we probably paid $400+ for after the subsidies that were built into the plans are factored in, and those barely did ANYTHING. In 2004, a lot of phones could barely even do texting, and the service was so bad in my area that most of the time, they couldn't even make a phone call. Now, for $129, you can get a pocket computer, and pay far less per month for data service that's 20x faster than our cable modems were back then, and coverage has improved in a lot of areas as new steel in the air has gone up, and small sites and DASes have been installed.

It is interesting, however, how younger people prefer iPhones over Android. The high-end Android market is a shrinking market in the US, and this study has interesting repercussions for smartphones and carriers in the US.
 
Dave.UK said:
Do they? I have some very old Android devices that still work great.
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The biggest issue is batteries degrading. iPhone batteries aren't magical, they just have the magical fruit store where you can go in and get them replaced. Same for damage to the devices. Further, Android phones have a bad habit of not getting updated after a couple of years, whereas an iPhone bought 4 years ago is still getting software updates. I have a Galaxy S7 right now, and I just had to get the battery replaced by some guy at the mall, which was interesting to say the least. I'm not counting on it lasting more than 3 years, tops, versus the 4+ I got out of my iPhone 4s, and for many people, I think the difference is even bigger. iPhones also hold their value a lot longer because of these factors, mostly the software updates.
 
MrX8503 said:
I wish I had a phone at all when I was a teen. My parents never bought me a phone growing up and now that I'm an adult, I bought my mom an iPhone. Imagine that.
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I wish I had a Neo Geo console growing up, but TBF, it was $700... in 1991 money no less. I got a Super Nintendo instead ($200), and looking back, was glad to have that, in addition to having saved the money.
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Dave.UK said:
Do they? I have some very old Android devices that still work great.
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BiggAW said:
The biggest issue is batteries degrading. iPhone batteries aren't magical, they just have the magical fruit store where you can go in and get them replaced. Same for damage to the devices. Further, Android phones have a bad habit of not getting updated after a couple of years, whereas an iPhone bought 4 years ago is still getting software updates. I have a Galaxy S7 right now, and I just had to get the battery replaced by some guy at the mall, which was interesting to say the least. I'm not counting on it lasting more than 3 years, tops, versus the 4+ I got out of my iPhone 4s, and for many people, I think the difference is even bigger. iPhones also hold their value a lot longer because of these factors, mostly the software updates.
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On my phones, i still get security updates for Android (even if not as often as Apple via iOS updates). Plus, some folks become wary of updating iOS after the 1st or 2nd major revision (e.g. 8.0 to 9.0), which would make the long support life moot. Android not getting the latest version of the OS ASAP also works in its favor in where users can expect to be more behind on that, but still run the same apps they had before.
 
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