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iPhone Ownership Among U.S. Teens Hits 87%
- bfrog 4y agoAndroid is losing a generation, not a good sign for competition. I like my iPhone like many others I’m sure, but without competition it’s likely to stagnate and worse potentially have even higher price points.
- MisterSandman 4y agoNot really, this is only the US, from a % from across the world, it's Apple who is basically a rounding error.
- dartharva 4y agoThis is only happening in the US. In the world's largest smartphone markets it has very measly (<5%) market shares. I'll be definitely surprised if the percentage even hits double digits if you see worldwide figures.
- bergenty 4y agoThat’s just insane market capture and they’re probably locked in for life.
- notch656a 4y ago>52% of teens cite Amazon as their No. 1 favorite e-comm site; SHEIN, Nike, Lululemon, and Pacsun took spots No. 2-5 I've only ever heard of two on this list. Interesting. Also to note there's shockingly low diversity in footwear and phone choices. Why is the teen market such a winner take all environment?
- darkwizard42 4y agoCouldn’t tell you about Pacsun’s popularity, but SHEIN is the fast fashion of fast fashion. Absolutely dirt cheap copycat apparel shipped from China with a very liberal return policy. Lulu and Nike seem very status-oriented and I believe they don’t list on Amazon directly so makes sense there.
- nrb 4y agoPacsun was big in the 90s, they had stores in a ton of malls that sold mostly clothes from surf brands like Quicksilver and Billabong. Interesting to see it on that list.
- AlexThrowAway 4y agoSHEIN has a small run just in time manufacturing model. They carry less than a day of inventory of many items and consolidate and airmail from warehouses next to their Chinese factories. H&M and Zara cannot compete. They order three months ahead, have six months of stock sitting on slow sea freight or in stores, and discard a massive amount of clothing from their stores at the end of season.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoShein has an interesting story behind it. https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/04/05/welcome-to-the-dark-side-shein-is-the-biggest-rip-off-since-fast-fashion-was-born https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/04/05/welcome-to-the-dar... https://www.marketplace.org/2022/05/06/business-shein-fast-fashion-brand-thats-dominating-gen-z-closets/ https://www.marketplace.org/2022/05/06/business-shein-fast-f...
- chironjit 4y agoDeja vu almost, as i remember many eons ago, blackberry popularity catching on with ever younger demographics.. right before the iPhone was introduced...
- kcb 4y agoYea that's what happens when Apple teams up with teens to bully anyone without an iPhone.
- prange 4y agoOh yes?
- Spivak 4y agoIt really does suck to be in group chats with Android users, pictures get downsized, "Person loved 'message'", voice memos don't work, you can't see people's dnd status, no deliver quietly, no typing indicators or read receipts. You can't airdrop to them, or share iCloud notes, or contribute to shared photo albums. Facetime is far and away the best video calling experience that exists. Android phones just aren't good enough to be worth the switch, especially when they're the same price. I've never paid more than $300 for an iPhone. There's no actual draw to Android, your choices on the market today are iPhones and worse off brand iPhones desperately trying to be iPhones. It used to be a meme that at every WWCD Apple would announce features that Android had for years and we'd all have a laugh but now it's flipped the other way which is honestly embarrassing for Google who burnt through so much of their advantage.
- Dracophoenix 4y ago> Android phones just aren't good enough to be worth the switch, especially when they're the same price. I've never paid more than $300 for an iPhone. Where, if I may ask, do you get such a good deal?
- stjohnswarts 4y agoThey either buy used or a couple generation old. I've never paid more than $350 for an iphone myself. If you don't "have to have" cutting edge, then older phones are fine.
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- delta_p_delta_x 4y agoAmong *American teens
- simonblack 4y agoYes. The numbers for the world as a whole would be in the low single digits.
- i67vw3 4y agoIn recent years/months I too have seen teen (youngsters) floating around their Iphones, half way around the world. The numbers have increased considerably around 10% in teens from 1% few years back. They mainly buy it as iphone is considered 'Posh', a sign of your class. There is no way for them to use imessage as everyone uses Whatsapp, no way to use facetime as everyone uses Whatsapp Call and for these buyers no way to use apple premium apps as they cost large amount of money while google products are free. A funny thing happened was when PUBG was banned here by government, it was removed by apple app store and google play store. But android users were still able to play PUBG by downloading and installing APK from web while apple users were not able to do it as according to apple 'Only hackers use Sideloading'. So, it was funny to watch at time android users gloating over iphone users.
- THENATHE 4y agoIt’s funny because literally the only reason WhatsApp caught on was because companies were gouging the fuck out of SMS costs. If every country did unlimited free talk and text, WhatsApp would be “what? Haven’t heard of that app” instead of the number one messaging app in Latin America
- Rhedox 4y agoThis has me worried for competition in the smartphone market in the future
- hankman86 4y agoNothing gives it away more clearly that you’re undateable than your Android phone.
- 42e6e8c8-f7b8-4 4y agoSo hilarious. My car probably does too. And my other frugal behaviors. Guess I'll keep buying assets instead of liabilities.
- Gigachad 4y agoEh car less so. The trendy thing for Zoomers is to be anti car/stroad/SUV. Using a car shows that you hate the environment.
- f1refly 4y agoIn the city? Maybe. In rural areas you'll get nowhere without a car, it's highly desirable.
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- filoleg 4y agoZoomers aren't exactly moving towards rural areas en masse (in fact the opposite is true[0]), so the parent comment's point still stands. 0. https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/are-millennials-leaving-cities-yes-young-adults-are-not https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/are-millennials-leaving-ci...
- PenguinCoder 4y agoAt least you can get few plus years out of "last year's" flagship Android phone.
- barbariangrunge 4y agoIf I got a phone for a kid, it would be an iPhone. It has way fewer creepy privacy issues than other phones (I would also seriously consider a linux phone)
- MiguelX413 4y agoSus
- pagthem 4y agoI never understood why people would pay so much more for a phone with similar functionality as an androidd phone. I'm not saying iphones don't look and feel more premium but the price premium just doesn't make sense to me.
- missedthecue 4y agoThe difference of $35 a month instead of $55 isn't that important if it means owning the iPhone.
- foverzar 4y agoWhy people pay so much more for a car with similar functionality as an another car? The price isn't really such a problem if you don't indocrtinate yourself into buying a new one each year. But this shouldn't be applicaple to teens though, probably?
- mplewis 4y agoPeople like devices with high-quality, long-lasting hardware. They like their phones to be secure and to receive OS updates from the vendors for their entire planned usable life. They want excellent cameras. They want their phone to perform well and just work. Under these conditions, why would you ever buy an Android?
- GoToRO 4y agoApple is a very local company, mostly US. The phone is not better, it's just better suited to that population.
- THENATHE 4y agoThe phone is absolutely better. Better battery, nicer looking screen, more solid feel, faster processor, better game performance, better software integration (if you don’t care about customization). The only real downside to someone that isn’t a power user is price, and even power users can tweak iOS enough for nearly any use case. An example is that you can currently sideload a virtual machine app from altstore that can literally run Linux with full USBC (or lightning to USB) pass through.