Too late to get an iPhone now
It’s over, iPhone. Pack it up. Throw in the towel. You’re history.
Well, to hear teens talk, that’s the story, at least according to Forbes:
“Teens are telling us Apple is done,” says Tina Wells of the youth marketing agency Buzz Marketing Group. “Apple has done a great job of embracing Gen X and older [Millennials], but I don’t think they are connecting with Millennial kids. [They’re] all about Surface tablets/laptops and Galaxy.”
The problem seems to be that parents are getting the newer iPhones and iPads, while giving the kids the older models. So, kids want the Samsung Galaxy S III phone or the Microsoft Surface tablet. That doesn’t mean they’re getting one of those, just that’s what the kids want. On the other hand, Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 parts.
If you never joined the iPhone brigade, it’s too late now, if you want to be seen as one of the cool kids.
Because I always make my several-hundred-dollar purchases based on what some 14-year-old thinks.
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(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)Tags: technology
January 14th, 2013 at 9:19 am
Phones – who cares? I don’t even answer when people call me from across the room.
January 14th, 2013 at 9:39 am
Apple supposedly cut orders for iPhone 5 components — except for the screens, the most expensive part of all. Sounds like they were either overstocked on the other components or they’re shifting the load to other vendors. Virtually every tale of “slipping” iPhone sales has proven false over the years.
January 14th, 2013 at 10:16 am
Because I always make my several-hundred-dollar purchases based on what some 14-year-old thinks.
Just wait until Buttercup is fourteen, Frank.
January 14th, 2013 at 10:16 am
My bad. I thought that it was Frank’s post, not Basil’s.
January 14th, 2013 at 10:23 am
Like Frank would have a photo of a Microsoft Kin just lying around.
January 14th, 2013 at 10:33 am
Is it too late to get a Zune?
January 14th, 2013 at 10:39 am
@Jimmy – No, not too late – I have one I’ll sell you.
January 14th, 2013 at 12:33 pm
I make sure that I stay at least a few “generations” behind technology for the sole purpose of embarrassing my kids.
January 14th, 2013 at 2:37 pm
I can say, unironically, that I had an Android phone before they were cool.
Oh crap, I think that makes me a hipster!
January 14th, 2013 at 5:11 pm
@mikeszekely – You said it unironically – so you’re good.
January 14th, 2013 at 8:19 pm
And we all know that teens loyalty lasts about as long as their attention span, half a nanosecond. Ask a teen what their favorite color is three days in a row and you’ll get 3 different answers. Yes we should all make decisions based on what teens with their wealth of experience and their maturity and their organizational abilities bring to the discussion. That is if we can get them to stop rolling their eyes, listening to their IPods and ignoring any adult over 20. These are the same people who made the Twilight series popular. Please.
January 14th, 2013 at 10:58 pm
@DamnCat – Man, I wish you would have told me before I beat myself up.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:15 am
@seanmahair – I’m pretty sure that middle-aged moms were the driving force behind Twilight.