:-( WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE NOBODY HAD A CELL PHONE! IF WE WANTED TO CALL SOMEONE WHILE WE WERE AWAY FROM HOME WE HAD TO USE A PAYPHONE! A CALL COST A DIME! THEN THE PHONE COMPANY JACKED IT UP TO A QUARTER! HIGHWAY ROBBERY! PAYPHONES USED TO BE INSTALLED IN BOOTHS SO YOU COULD HAVE A PRIVATE CONVERSATION BUT THEY GOT RID OF THEM! THEY BUILT THESE GOOFY LOOKING THINGS CALLED "KIOSKS" INSTEAD! SOUNDS KIND OF FOREIGN TO ME!
$63K is the US household median income
I sincerely hope you captured that on camera ... there so many few of those 'I gotcha' moments as parents we have after our children are toddlers.
in case you missed it ... download teen buzz sound and randomly play it at full volume around your kids (even in the next room). Just try not to be so obviously giddy like some of us have when we first got a lazer pointer to play with a cat
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You might be VERY surprised. I'd guess half of teens above 14 have purchased their first or second iphone (in Canada / USA). My reasoning ...
Contracts on carriers and incredible corporate plan deals. You'd be quite shocked how little it costs for a teen on a McDonald's corporate price plan and how much voice and data they'd get for say on Rogers/AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile. If this is attainable at say BestBuy, Target, Apple Store, etc and their parents co-sign ... boom easy as 1.2.3. Also helps teens learn their very first way to manage responsibility and credit simultaneously, even if it means parents cannot ground them by taking their phones away because in today's world that would be close to putting them into danger.
Funny how cheap little quips like mine get a dozen or more likes... and the rather thoughtful posts myself and others tend to write (wherever they may be) seem to get nary a glance."Get 'em while they're young!"
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there’s been no contracts in the US for a very long time. 7-8 years.
and they’d be better off on family plans, unable to use a corporate discount, because of the sheer savings they’d have on their monthly service charge.
You mean like WhatsApp and Skype? These are both on IOS. So what you are actually saying is that there's more options on IOS, by your own definition, doesn't that confuse things even more?Apple has iMessage and FaceTime. Android has a potpourri of stuff that just complicates everything.
Are teens buying these phones or is mom/dad?
Wondering what happens when the parents kick the little birdies out of the nest and they realize just how expensive Apple products are
Except the imessage and facetime are native across 1billion devices. With whatsapp and skype optional.You mean like WhatsApp and Skype? These are both on IOS. So what you are actually saying is that there's more options on IOS, by your own definition, doesn't that confuse things even more?
I was born in 1968.I have no idea how old you are, yet I'll bet you where a teen before the 70's.
I was joking about that. I was trying to mimic the stereotype of a cranky old person.But if you think a US/Canadian quarter was a rip off when that occured
there’s been no contracts in the US for a very long time. 7-8 years.
I guess they're called agreements rather than contracts now, but there is a significant change: no more ETFs (early termination fees), as far as I know. Typically, the price of the phone is divided evenly over the number of months in the agreement. Each month, the customer pays for part of that month's portion of the price and the carrier gives a bill credit for the rest. (I know that with Sprint, the customer must pay the entire amount of the sales tax at the start of the agreement.) If the customer no longer wants the service plan they agreed to in order to get the phone at a discount, or if they want to move to a different carrier, they have to pay the entire remaining balance of the price of the phone and thus lose out on the future bill credits.So you're telling me in the USA, AT&T, T-Mobile/Sprint, Verizon, Boost Mobile, etc ALL have not covered ANY mobile plans with contracts of 2yrs for the last 7 to 8yrs?
So you're telling me in the USA, AT&T, T-Mobile/Sprint, Verizon, Boost Mobile, etc ALL have not covered ANY mobile plans with contracts of 2yrs for the last 7 to 8yrs? Honestly? Or are you stating McDonald's or corporate price plan discounts no longer exist?
Something doesn't sound right with either.