48% of U.S. teens own an iPhone. 62% plan to buy one.

[DeusxMac]

Teens' tech stats

[CJsNvrUrly]

Weren't there reports two months ago about how teens had gotten over iPhones?

[RAMd®d]

Weren't there reports two months ago about how teens had gotten over iPhones?

Yes, no doubt from the same analysts/web log writers who asked the insightful question "How much longer can Apple last?" and variations on that theme.

[Speedy]

Beleaguered.

[ztirffritz]

That is the first time that I've ever seen my household in the 'high-income' bracket.

[Black]

•48% of teens already own an iPhone, compared with 40% last fall
•62% of teens plan on making an iPhone their next mobile device (flat vs. fall 2012)
•23% expect to buy an Android phone, up from from 22% last fall

Extrapolate: almost half of current iPhone owners plan to switch to Android...

[Article Accelerator]

Black wrote:
•48% of teens already own an iPhone, compared with 40% last fall
•62% of teens plan on making an iPhone their next mobile device (flat vs. fall 2012)
•23% expect to buy an Android phone, up from from 22% last fall

Extrapolate: almost half of current iPhone owners plan to switch to Android...

Can you be explicit about the math you're using to come to that conclusion, Black?

[(vikm)]

Article Accelerator wrote:

Can you be explicit about the math you're using to come to that conclusion, Black?

He may have been joking... maybe? Either that or I'm worse at math than I thought.

[cbelt3]

92 % of American teens are bad at math.

The other 15% aren't much better. :biggrin:

[GGD]

cbelt3 wrote:
92 % of American teens are bad at math.

The other 15% aren't much better. :biggrin:

And it looks like 110% (48% + 62%) are committed to the iPhone.