The teens don't own the iPhones as they're not paying the $$$$ bill for them. It's their parents who are ponying up the $$$ for their little precious to impress their chums with materialistic possessions.
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82% of Teens Surveyed Now Own an iPhone, 84% Plan to Purchase
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Clearly... having a phone is a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT not a privilege, duh.
The question is why iOS and not Android. Well the answer is quite clear if the survey is at all accurate it just goes to prove that today's teenagers are incapable of thinking for themselves. Back to back the iOS and Android are closer than ever and in some areas is superior but then again the teenagers are not considering an Android Phone because their mate doesn't have one hence the acronym 'iSheep'.
Probably to drive home the point that an Apple watch has way more appeal and function for a tiny fraction of the cost.
As if teens of previous generations were so independent. I've seen movies from the 90s, 80s, etc... and no, that's not what I see. Nothing's changed.
Kids today just want the tech that works right without setup. Nobody has attention span for details anymore.
It interesting though, the only iPhone I've seen at my college belonged to my instructor, and it was an old 5C model.
In the 90's, 80's, etc... how many smartphones were there ? The answer none. Back in the day teenagers exercised the skill of an ever dying thing called 'speech'.
Yeah, but that doesn't make them independent. If anything makes them more social, which makes them less independent. I'm not defending this generation for that; I agree it's worse in that way.
Ha! If I had just been snorting a condom through my nose, I would have just spit it out after reading this.
And yes, the polling subjects here seem rather suspect in their variety.
This will also affect the rest of Apple's product line as the iPhone can be seen as the "entry level" into an Apple life. They buy an iPhone and like it. Next they buy an Apple watch or an iPad. When they get ready for college, they enjoy their Apple products so they buy a Macbook or Macbook Pro. This leads to the after-college work world. While most offices still use Windows, I think as this younger generation moves up there will be an increase in personal choice on operating systems and people who grew up on Macs/iPhones in high school and college are more likely to push the business world towards Apple products.
Just my thoughts. Let's come back here in 20 years and see if I was right.
In my own experience so far I've seen the opposite. The college I go to was all Mac when I started but over the course of the last 2 years they've replaced all their Macs with PCs because of the high cost of Macs and lower performance compared to less expensive PCs.
Same when it comes to an office situation. If you've got several hundred to thousand employees, are you going to spend over 1000$ for each of them to have a Mac? No, your going to buy a 500$ PC system in bulk.
This provides a better long-term view on Apple than I think most people realize. Once you are locked into the Apple ecosystem, it is difficult to change, not only for practical purposes, but because of the high customer satisfaction and customer retention. This extremely high number of teens having iPhones (albeit in the US only) makes it likely that Apple's market share will continue to rise over the years as these teens grow into adulthood.
This will also affect the rest of Apple's product line as the iPhone can be seen as the "entry level" into an Apple life. They buy an iPhone and like it. Next they buy an Apple watch or an iPad. When they get ready for college, they enjoy their Apple products so they buy a Macbook or Macbook Pro. This leads to the after-college work world. While most offices still use Windows, I think as this younger generation moves up there will be an increase in personal choice on operating systems and people who grew up on Macs/iPhones in high school and college are more likely to push the business world towards Apple products.
Just my thoughts. Let's come back here in 20 years and see if I was right.
Remember though that all the kids are using Chromebooks at school. They will probably want to get a Macbook as an "adult" computer when they go to college, but they will all know Chrome. That is why Apple is trying to get its iPads into more schools.
Windows on the other hand seems pretty much headed to dead as a consumer item.
Ugh. Chrome is already trying to close up the Internet with Chrome-only sites, just like IE did with the ActiveX nonsense and other nonstandard things. The browser kinda sucks too. Chews up battery on Mac, scans your entire disk on Windows.
Oh well. Google > Microsoft anyway. In almost every way.
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I've got both PCs and Macs in my office environment. The Macs require no maintenance and last for years and years. The PCs cost not much less (over $1,000 each), start to fail in their second year, and require technical support frequently, used to require paid OS upgrade (I've still got people using Windows 7!) and no one likes them because the employees almost all use Macs at home. If I can avoid it, I'm never setting up a company to support PCs again.
Just there is no solid evidence Chromebooks have made any impact within the educational sector or come to that public arena either.
But every day in almost every public school the kids are doing their work through Chromebooks and using a Gmail account for all their files and to receive their homework. All the data from all the classroom work is being collected by Google as well. That is something to think about.
How is Windows "headed to dead"? The last 3 classmates of mine who had MacBooks have either switched or are switching to PC laptops.
Unless you can find statistics to back it up, saying Windows is heading to death is silly.
I'm not sure what data you want to see. But kids are using them all the time. They would be using something else if they weren't using Chromebooks.
Shrug. If Google doesn't do it, someone else will. Local storage is less safe in inexperienced hands IMO. You have to transfer your files somehow; the old way was emailing to yourself, which presented the same problem except worse because that made it more hackable. And stuff sat on random disks, unencrypted.
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Look at sales of Macs. Growing in general, though slowly. Then look at PCs, sales decreasing. Then consider that Macs probably have twice the useful life of PCs. Do you think user time on PCs compared to Macs is increasing? I don't think so.
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And the lesson plans of the teachers. But yes, they will have your homework, emails, chat history, browsing history, etc. Everything you did with that Chromebook.
I agree, in Europe I don’t know anyone that uses iMessage primarily anymore which was quite different 5 years ago. It was a brilliant piece of tech when people still used SMS, along with FaceTime audio and voice calls.
Teens are a massive market for Apple, and they’re smart, it’s why they give a big section for Animoji and games during a keynote. All the favourable YouTube tech people that were given the iPhone X early, heavily pushed Animoji use rather than the excellent gesture based stuff the iPhone X has. Apple knows teens will spend on different cases, watch bands, message stickers and in-app purchases, this is basically free money with hardly any heavy R&D needed for Apple.
Simple really....the iPhone is actually a phone, not a personal info vacuum cleaner like that other phone whose OS starts with the initials...Android.
I THINK they asked “what would you prefer?” And 41% said Rolex. I have yet to see anyone under 40 that owns a Rolex...