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One-Third of U.S. High School Students Now Own an iPhone

Heh, for all those saying they didn't get a cellphone til whenever... when I was in high school no one really had a cellphone (they just started getting popular I think when I was in college or maybe towards the end of high school, but still only really rich people tended to have cellphones). The only mobile phone anyone had was a carphone. My friend had one and it was huge (large base with cord that went to the handset) for emergencies only.
 
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the ultimate cheat sheets - internet connected smart phones and tablets

wish i had them going to school

i'm making up for it now
 
faroZ06 said:
That was my cellphone for a while... It was a lot better for calling than any smartphone. I'd really rather have that plus an iPod touch than my iPhone alone.

Sadly, it was too easy to ignore calls on the flip-phone, so my parents made me sell the iPod and get an iPhone.
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Sounds like you had it better than most.

I was just happy to have a cell phone. Wasn't better than my iPhone but I had it for years until I got one.
 
Trust me, High School Students have the iPhone because it is a "cool" device
that is with the times that makes them popular.

Much like Beats headphones and Jordan sneakers, people buy it just for the brand.

iPhone4S is decent, I was considering on getting one but a monopoly is never good, I - one person will be negligible in terms of marketshare but I refuse to add to Apple's monopoly.

Better yet, Android ICS is coming and great Android overlays like HTC sense has me choosing an Android as my next phone. Plus android works much better with my Windows 7 computer and iOS is bland. A perfect storm for me to reverse the trend and go to Android OS.
 
thetexan said:
I'd rather be poor in America than rich in many other countries in this world.

In the past I had a part time job for a local social services provider and I had to go to peoples homes to have them fill out forms to receive social services if they weren't able to make it to our office to fill out forms. I lost count of how many "poor" people had a big screen TV, xbox, decent car and enough money to stock up on cigarettes and alcohol.
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Assuming "America" is referring to the U.S. (remember "America" could be any country in Northern, Central, or Southern America), then we absolutely have our share of the homeless and hungry, including those without big screen televisions, cars, xboxes, or iPhones.

If we're going to have this argument, I'm thinking it shouldn't be anecdotal accounts of what particular "poor" families possess. We should define "poor" and compare numbers. I'm guessing that the U.S. will have lower poverty than some "first-world" countries, but also greater poverty than others. This will become even more interesting if we account for health and life satisfaction.

Anyway, even if we find our "poor" don't have it bad as say Mexico, or the Philippines, India, Africa, whatever, that doesn't mean we should accept poverty or that our poor somehow deserve their situation just because they're poor.

We're seeing greater concentration of wealth, especially in the U.S., than ever before. We're also seeing significant socializing of costs and privatizing of profits here in the U.S. with major efforts and spending to continue and expand that practice. That makes me think that if we wanted to, we could probably further address our poverty situation.

But yeah, statistically we certainly aren't the worst, and selfishly, thank goodness for that. But it's hard to comfort any of the dozen homeless I'll encounter on my way home tonight with that.

Anyway, you'll find the down-vote arrow just to the right there... click away.
 
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I fail to see how this comes at a shock to anyone. It's taboo to not own a cellphone these days and the times are shifting towards it being taboo not to own a smartphone. What was the normal in '05 is irrelevant to today.
 
I had one friend with a cell phone when I was in high school (he also had a pager). This is the phone:
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I did not know anyone else with a cell phone. Few kids even had internet access at home in those days.
 
And 9/10ths of them were bought it by mommy and daddy. Cell phones were just becoming popular when I was in high school... but, of course, all they did was make phone calls.
 
Seems high. But on the other hand I can see sacrifices being made in order to obtain one. Gotta keep in contact with peers every which way.
 
When I was in high school, if you were caught with a cell phone you were expelled because the only possible explanation was that you were a drug dealer.

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iMikeT said:
Kids are so lucky these days. When I was in high school, the most advanced Apple product was the G4 Cube.
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I'm not sure they're lucky. They will always take computers for granted. They'll never experience the magic of an Apple II for the first time.
 
firewood said:
I wonder how many low income and high crime rate schools districts they included in their survey?

If they did, to compensate, these percentages in the schools in rich neighborhoods must be stratospheric!
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You'd be surprised how many iPhone's are in the Ghetto / 'hood these days. The text messages and email on these phones are regularly confiscated and gray zone slurped for incriminating data.

Also how your phone case is decorated is as important as how your dress for school. Explains a few high school students freaking out when they see my all black iPhone case with fake bullet hole stickers on it.
 
High School students can afford iPhones?:confused: Are you sure they are not dealing drugs? I wonder this report was done by Consumer Reports because I still do not have a iPhone and I am not in high school.

I wonder who is paying their data plans since high school kids have no control with limit of using the interweb.
 
hspace said:
Shouldn't the headline be: One third of high school students are provided iPhones by their parents? :D Most of them don't own jack *****.
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Uh, actually no. What you were so poor in high school that you couldn't afford a $200 phone? I got my first iPhone in 7th grade (iP4) and paid for it without any problem. Just because you're poor doesn't make everyone around you poor.
 
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