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iPhone No Longer Appealing to Teens

To be honest, even Windows 8 Phones are cooler to teenagers than iPhones.

And looking at the iOS, you can see why.
 
This would be great if it were true. I'd love to see a change.

For one, I'd like to visit the App Store without all the stupid tweener apps clogging up the top charts.
 
Not sure about this, at least not in my own personal experience.

I have several nieces and nephews. The one's in High School either have iPhones or want them.

My 13 year old neice just got a 4 for X-Mas and couldn't have been happier.

But I guess with all the different options theses days, iPhone was bound to lose a few customers of all ages.
 
scaredpoet said:
The article is an opinion piece, not news. No teens were polled, there's no hard data. Just the author blathering about how much she thinks she knows about what teens want, and a few pundit quotes thrown in for good measure.

This "news" isn't even worth commenting about.

I do agree that Apple must continue to evolve though. But if smartphone market share is really as fad-driven as everyone seems to think, then I would think humungous screens are going to be sooooo last year by the time Apple comes out with something. I'd rather they evolve eslewhere.
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Agreed. This article is almost entirely anecdotal and speculative. But its the type of thing that will get picked up by all kinds of blogs and tech sites and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ever since Steve Jobs passed away, the media has had a death watch over Apple.
 
They also say teens want the MS Surface. Have any of you USED a Surface? It's HORRIBLE!! Even MS employees who got them for free don't like it.

Either teens are stupid (very likely) or this article is BS.

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barkomatic said:
Agreed. This article is almost entirely anecdotal and speculative. But its the type of thing that will get picked up by all kinds of blogs and tech sites and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ever since Steve Jobs passed away, the media has had a death watch over Apple.
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It's what gets them hits. The bloggers can only meet their quotas by writing anti-apple crap, thus generating a ton of traffic from the anti-apple trolls.
 
bushman4 said:
As long as Apple keeps innovating Software & Hardware there will be a large following.The pace and competition have heated up and Apple must leap to the occasion. Which they are more than capable of doing. Competition makes things better.
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They haven't really innovated anything in recent memory though.
 
Personally, being a nineteen year old on a forum like this makes me feel like I'm part of this survey, I'm not. Good, thats out the way.
I don't find it, almost fair with these stories. At my college (UK college, High school in America?) I had my iPhone 3Gs, a few people with an iPhone 4, but the more popular choice was an HTC or Samsung, and that was the case when I left last year.
I myself still love the iPhone. The standard "it just works" phrase is my favourite thing about this thing, I got an HTC Desire HD after my 3Gs, it just didn't compare and nothing synced with my mac. But thats my view.

Now I've read it back its kind of off topic, what I'm trying to say is, don't throw us teens in as the iPhone being popular as a style icon, and not as a smart phone.
 
Obviously with teens things are always about what's cool and in. I'm finding that at least some of them are being careful what they wish for. Case in point- my 16 year old cousin always had to have the newest and latest iPod touch (iTouch is what her and friends call it). When it was her time to get a phone, she wanted a Samsung and got one. Needless to say it was a major problem when she couldn't match the apps that she collected over the years to her Samsung! Now she's begging everyone in the family for their old iPhones! Lol
 
AbyssImpact said:
Don't you have the controls to choose which song/radio station to listen to if they are that young of an age?
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Offcourse I do.
Not sure if you're a parent or not or didnt get that my phrase was not serious that I cant listen to something else but kidding around. What comes along with being a parent usually when your little one likes to listen to a certain song that's either on the radio or on a CD you play it;)
Over and over and over and over:D
 
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Applejuiced said:
Offcourse I do.
Not sure if you're a parent or not or didnt get that my phrase was not serious that I cant listen to something else but kidding around. What comes along with being a parent usually when your little one likes to listen to a certain song that's either on the radio or on a CD you play it;)
Over and over and over and over:D
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And over and over and over and over.....

Yea, i'm a parent. LOL
 
The one teenager I know of that wanted a gs3 over an iPhone did so because they didn't like the iPhone's autocorrect feature while texting - not knowing it can be trained.

Wow. :rolleyes:

Clearly the competition is far more advanced than we give them credit.
 
Nobody stays on top forever. There is not one single company that is still on top. Ever.
That's my tune the day that I saw Microsoft fall. Prior to it happening, I thought Microsoft would be a monopoly until the end of time. Seems naive in retrospect.

Apple will not be on top forever, and I would not be surprised if the iPhone is losing its luster.
 
unagimiyagi said:
Nobody stays on top forever. There is not one single company that is still on top. Ever.
That's my tune the day that I saw Microsoft fall. Prior to it happening, I thought Microsoft would be a monopoly until the end of time. Seems naive in retrospect.

Apple will not be on top forever, and I would not be surprised if the iPhone is losing its luster.
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I never bought my phone or Apple product because it was famous or appealing to teens... I could care less. I bought it because it did what it was advertised to do and because it suited my need.

IMHO, Teens only need a flip phone with basic texting capability at most. They don't need internet on their phones. I got by with just that.
 
jav6454 said:
I never bought my phone or Apple product because it was famous or appealing to teens... I could care less. I bought it because it did what it was advertised to do and because it suited my need.

IMHO, Teens only need a flip phone with basic texting capability at most. They don't need internet on their phones. I got by with just that.
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You would be a social outcast among today's teens if that is all you have. It would be like carrying around a 1990s brick phone when everyone else had flip phones.
 
numberforty1 said:
I agree with you. They don't need, they just want.
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Exactly.

SomeDudeAsking said:
Why does anyone need a smartphone? You should go back to your flip phone.
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I said teens. I need an iPhone due to work. I have to use email and other stuff on it. Give me a good reason a teen would need an iPhone for? Please don't say school (unless you are in college and even then its a reach).
 
I'm 18 as well, and I'd say 90% or more of my friends have iPhones, and there all coming from android so I disagree with the article.
 
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