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Record 83% of Surveyed U.S. Teens Own an iPhone
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Just went over to Apple Insider, their article says "86% of teens say their next phone is an iPhone". So who's reporting the real results, MacRumors or Apple Insider?
It's even more interesting you chose to quote my comment and subsequently ignored the 10 prior comments of people gloating about iPhones being overpriced Fisher Priced devices for people who don't know how to use technology.
This place isn't exactly a haven for positive comments about Apple. One or two digs towards the green-bubble maggots won't hurt.
Which brings up an interesting metric not mentioned in the article: What percentage of those 83% of teens have parents who own iphones?
Also, since the survey only looks at upper and middle income teens, I wonder how much the results would differ if they also factored in lower income teens.
This, completely. Teens don't choose their phones based on some critical analysis, balancing the benefits, costs, and compromises of various model's performance, ecosystem, etc. and more than they demand clothes brands based on cost, durability, fabric traits, and factory conditions. They want what their friends won't make fun of. Teens have a natural, biologically driven, desire to conform. We all do, to an extent, but it is stronger when you are young.
This is still good news for Apple, but it hardly is indicative of quality. I won't not be bragging about owning a phone teens like any more than I would about wearing shoes teen's find desirable.
I'm not sure it has better hardware.
A12 and FaceID alone are better than the S10e offerings.
It should be illegal to give children a smart phone or tablet device before they are in high school...
MacRumors FTA: “Meanwhile, 86 percent of U.S. teens expect their next smartphone to be an iPhone, matching an all-time high set in fall 2018”
The 83% is current ownership, which MacRumors chose to use in the headline. Not sure why AppleInsider is only reporting intent and not the current ownership.
More data:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/h...-Completes-Semi-Annual-Generation-Survey-8000
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Why? Children and teens are two different demographics. The article is referring to teens, but either way, having a form of communication if the parent allows it, may be a necessary thing to communicate for emergencies or other matters. But saying it ‘should be illegal’ is overly drastic.
I'm sure you're joking, however I have unfortunately seen other people have conversations about this and imply that someone is inferior because of the green bubbles. Now, maybe they were simply being tongue-in-cheek, but I couldn't believe it when I heard it.
You must not be old enough to know the baby boomers were “the me generation”
I still remember when ad agencies and ‘taste makers / trend setters’ even just a few years back kept saying how kids and teens thought the iPhone was so uncool. It was all about the android. And apple was seen as an ‘old mans’ phone. As always these people get paid big big bucks and think they are on the pulse of knowing trends. In reality they are completely clueless.
Just like all of those people that say Apple are over, can’t innovate yadda yadda. Maybe now all those fools who moaned about emojis etc now realise what the long game plan for apple was in bringing them to the table.
Just like all of those people that say Apple are over, can’t innovate yadda yadda. Maybe now all those fools who moaned about emojis etc now realise what the long game plan for apple was in bringing them to the table.
It has an inferior processor, the display isn’t calibrated (no proper color management in Android), the camera isn’t an upgrade from last year, it runs an inferior OS, has inferior support/service and.....
The supposedly secure under screen fingerprint sensor has already been hacked by a simple 3D printed “fingerprint”.
A young mind is a restless one. Capturing its attention is a feat. Keeping its attention into adulthood? Good luck.
I can't think of a product, activity, or person that I continue to cherish from adolescence. I'm disappointed everytime I taste a cereal or snackfood I used to devour as a youth. The product probably didn't change. Obviously, I did.
I can't think of a product, activity, or person that I continue to cherish from adolescence. I'm disappointed everytime I taste a cereal or snackfood I used to devour as a youth. The product probably didn't change. Obviously, I did.
But there is that whole magazine subscription thing... Not exactly aligned with this demographic.
Gee, when I was a teenager, a "smartphone" was a big black rotary dial thing that sat on a table in the hall. Two short rings, it was for us, one long ring, it was for our neighbor. The length of the conversation depended on how long you wanted to stand in the hallway. So, I'm thankful for ANY phone that slips into my pocket and can do all these wonderful things. I like Apple's hardware and OSes better than the others, so that's what I buy. But really, it's all good.
There's no way out once their hooked to Apple environment like me or else it going to be costly. I would say they can stay on iPhones maybe try to diversity other computing devices. I don't know how and what to suggest but this is exactly what happens to me and I can't get out. I'm stuck!