87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by sho_hn on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:16PM (#33183396)

There's a fair number of posts in the thread now pointing out that iPhones are not-that-expensive, and all of them drive up my own engagement with the plight of the people who can't afford one. If you're, say, in a 5% bracket of society who can't afford one, it's all the more awful and potentially debilitating to have a marker on you that flags you as part of the 5%, no?

And at $430 it's still a lot more than 5% in the USA.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by nomel on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:54PM (#33184828)

If you think a green bubble is the only thing that will mark you for that 5%, that people will judge, you've never been, or known anyone, that was poor.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by sho_hn on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:48PM (#33185326)

I neither think so nor said I do - it just happens to be the one we're discussing here, distinctly from the many others.

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