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The iPhone 5c isn't 'cool'
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Isn't this one of the key points?! What is "not cool" today can be cool tomorrow. I've seen that with my own daughter. She could come home from school next week, once people have these phones, and say she changed her mind and that "so in so has one and we all liked it".
Even the 'cool kids' at school have different likes and dislikes.
Just because a set few teens think it's not cool doesn't mean all teens will think that. In fact, isn't that how trends usually start anyway? A few people start wearing/using/doing something and people think it's lame/whatever, then when it starts to pick up everyone 'forgets' it's lame and starts doing it too..
Sorry to say but I fail to see your point here at all. Any number of other people could post saying that their 13-year-old daughter and all of their friends all think the 5C is really cool.
Just because a set few teens think it's not cool doesn't mean all teens will think that. In fact, isn't that how trends usually start anyway? A few people start wearing/using/doing something and people think it's lame/whatever, then when it starts to pick up everyone 'forgets' it's lame and starts doing it too..
Sorry to say but I fail to see your point here at all. Any number of other people could post saying that their 13-year-old daughter and all of their friends all think the 5C is really cool.
Not sure why you assume your kid's opinion is representative for the entire globe. I guess that's just what parents do.
Yes, I base all my electronics purchases on what 13 year old girls think are cool. Other items to add to the list:
Not sure why you assume your kid's opinion is representative for the entire globe. I guess that's just what parents do.
I don't (I think you did) but she is an average teenage girl. Her friends are average teenage girls. I'm simply pointing out that, what I as well as others thought would be a target for the 5c was wrong. I'm sure some teenage girls will love the 5c.
It is not the response I expected from my daughter and I'm wondering how wide spread this is.
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Hmm... Teenage girls turned that into a multi-billion dollar franchise. I may think it is silly but I will not dismiss their consumer power, like some here have.
OP,
My daughters been in school for 2 weeks, yours has been in for 2 months?? Good heavens. You in the US?
My daughters been in school for 2 weeks, yours has been in for 2 months?? Good heavens. You in the US?
Good to know some things never change.
what's funny is, the same people saying this are in those lines.
How many times must it be repeated that Apple made the 5C soley for profit margin reasons and not for it to be cheap or to go after Android in the market share gain. It's cheaper material meant to increase margins over how much it would have costed to continue to produce a reduced price 5.
They never said or announced that it was for going after market share or targeting kids. It's all about profit margins. It's much cheaper to make than the 5 but the end user price doesn't reflect those reduced cost. The only ones the 5C is cheaper to is Apple.
They never said or announced that it was for going after market share or targeting kids. It's all about profit margins. It's much cheaper to make than the 5 but the end user price doesn't reflect those reduced cost. The only ones the 5C is cheaper to is Apple.
I think that you have to look at their phone line up globally. I wouldn't be surprised if the 5C does nothing for market share in the US, but it may well significant increase sales in other markets which are much more price sensitive than that US. I would be expecting them to shift most volume of the 5C in markets other than the US and western europe.
I won't judge the 5C until I have seen it in person.
Saying that, I have no interest in buying one, but it might look better than it does in the pictures.
I also don't know if I like the black Apple logos. Why not make it reflective like on the 3GS, that would have been cool.
Saying that, I have no interest in buying one, but it might look better than it does in the pictures.
I also don't know if I like the black Apple logos. Why not make it reflective like on the 3GS, that would have been cool.
This, of course, implies that the person carrying the iPhone IS cool, and that somehow the 5c will detract for their coolness.
BIG assumption!
Being well removed from a teenager now, I am at a point where I don't really care what anyone thinks of what color phone I have.
Not only that, other people probably could care less what color phone I carry.
So I'm deriving from this that the iPhone would be cool if it was plastered with stickers of Justin Bieber and One Direction. Please don't get me started on what barely teenagers think is "cool."
Who said anything about consumer power? Just like Twilight, because something is popular doesn't make it a quality product in any way, shape or form. I mean, Windows has 85%+ market share on their OS, does that make it a great quality product to own?