82% of Teens Surveyed Now Own an iPhone, 84% Plan to Purchase

[dirt_farmer]

I would contend that the wearables market, watches specifically, was bad technology before Apple stepped in.

Yes it was but they didn't explode it and make it into something unbelievably good.

Instead they made a watch that nobody knows what it's really for. App makers put apps on it but that was silly and now they're deprecating or removing them. It tells the time, you can make dick tracy phone calls on it, and it works like a FitBit. A five hundred dollar fitbit that you charge every night and throw in the garbage in a few years.

You will know it when an industry is revolutionized because everything is turned on its' head and you have no idea how you functioned before you had the new product.

People said that about the original iMac, people said that about the iPod+iTunes ecosystem, and people say that about the iPhone and iPad.

But those were 20, 15, and 10 years ago respectively. Since then, crickets. And a watch that can make phone calls.

 

[dwaltwhit]

Yes it was but they didn't explode it and make it into something unbelievably good.

Instead they made a watch that nobody knows what it's really for. App makers put apps on it but that was silly and now they're deprecating or removing them. It tells the time, you can make dick tracy phone calls on it, and it works like a FitBit. A five hundred dollar fitbit that you charge every night and throw in the garbage in a few years.

You will know it when an industry is revolutionized because everything is turned on its' head and you have no idea how you functioned before you had the new product.

People said that about the original iMac, people said that about the iPod+iTunes ecosystem, and people say that about the iPhone and iPad.

But those were 20, 15, and 10 years ago respectively. Since then, crickets. And a watch that can make phone calls.

I see your points. They are well made and with merit. I think that you are underestimating the impact the watch has made. It may not be the music in your pocket transformation the ipod was, but it has definitely made waves in the watch industry. Are those waves the same size as the mobile music industry? Of course not. But whereas the mobile music industry dates back to, arguably I suppose, the sony walkman, the watch industry goes back centuries.

I say that to say this: I, along with many I assume, now wear a watch every day of my life whereas I would not have before this one.

 

[dirt_farmer]

I see your points. They are well made and with merit. I think that you are underestimating the impact the watch has made. It may not be the music in your pocket transformation the ipod was, but it has definitely made waves in the watch industry. Are those waves the same size as the mobile music industry? Of course not. But whereas the mobile music industry dates back to, arguably I suppose, the sony walkman, the watch industry goes back centuries.

I say that to say this: I, along with many I assume, now wear a watch every day of my life whereas I would not have before this one.

I do not dispute that the iWatch is novel an different and has changed how people use watches.

If iPod + iTunes was the invention of the automobile, the iWatch was the automatic transmission.

Impactful yes. Innovative yes.

Revolutionary and society-changing no.

 

[Brandhouse]

Nothing wrong with that.

My question was to the language in the headline which was unclear. If you have survey results that 82% of respondents said "X", then any further results can only be from the remaining 18%. That was my issue. 82% + 84%=166%.

The language in the article is poorly written and not very articulate. If it is meant that 82% of people surveyed said 'X" to question Z and to another question 84% said "B" then the intent of the article is clearer. Add that to the issue that the survey conducted for what purpose, we're given no context and much ahas already been written to draw an assumption.

 

[lowendlinux]

I'm surprised Nixon made it on the list I have the only Nixon smart watch I've ever seen

 

[TallManNY]

My question was to the language in the headline which was unclear. If you have survey results that 82% of respondents said "X", then any further results can only be from the remaining 18%. That was my issue. 82% + 84%=166%.

The language in the article is poorly written and not very articulate. If it is meant that 82% of people surveyed said 'X" to question Z and to another question 84% said "B" then the intent of the article is clearer. Add that to the issue that the survey conducted for what purpose, we're given no context and much ahas already been written to draw an assumption.

Your status as an iPhone owner and your status as to what you think you next phone will be are two different questions with no necessary relationship. This survey has been around for a long time so I don't think we need the context. These are questions that have been asked for over a decade. First, what phone do you own? Second, [when your current phone is done] (this is the part, I think you are missing or maybe you feel should be in the headline), What do you think your next phone will be?

82% of teens own an iPhone. Note, they are probably answering this question correctly (though some may be lying because they are embarrassed about using a crappy Android phone. 84% think that the next phone they own will be an iPhone. Note, this is a guess about the future and the teens really can't be expected to necessarily get this answer right. And again they might be lying because iPhones cost more and so might seem like luxury products when the Teen really knows that they are unlikely to be able to afford an iPhone in the future. But what the second question suggests is that there are more teens out there using a non-iPhone who think that they are moving to an iPhone next.

If lots of teens didn't like their current iPhone, they might answer the second question to say that they are likely to replace their iPhone at some point with a non-iPhone.