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 2000UltraDeluxe on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:57AM (#33187742)

15th phone in total, would be fairly average for someone who has had mobile phones for 30 years. I suspect that's what the GP meant. Smartphone adoption is still not anywhere universal and many, many, are still on their first smart phone since a few years back.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by bearmode on Thursday October 13, 2022 @05:06AM (#33188816)

He specifically said 15th iphone. iphones have been around for 15 years.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by conductr on Friday October 14, 2022 @01:22AM (#33199935)

Yeah that was me, and I am talking iPhone. Don't try to overanalyze the "15". There's nothing scientific about it I just made it up and put the tilde in front. Didn't realize it would be the focus of such debate. It could be 10 or 20. Most people I know were early adopters and have replaced every 1-2 years and have also probably broken a couple along the way requiring early replacement. I'm also not claiming my observation is representative of anything other than that, I'm sure it wouldn't match some larger dataset. It's biased by a ton of factors. I was trying to point out 2 things;

1) we've used iphone's since the beginning and are pretty loyal, would likely never consider non iPhone

2) we don't tend to switch apps for "inclusivity" as the original comment parent stated. We blatantly exclude people that are not on the Apple product ecosystem by being rather inflexible to even try the universe of platform agnostic options (WhatsApp, etc).

This is my experience in the US. Basically, we're acting like the teenagers except in a not so mean and judgemental way.

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