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> surveying over 9,000 adolescents across America... According to this year's report, 87 percent of teenagers surveyed own an iPhone, while 88 percent expect to buy an iPhone as their next device.

It's very easy to plan on buying an iPhone as your next device when mom and dad are paying for it. We'll see how many of these kids plan on buying an iPhone when they are paying for it.



Is a young adult really going to want to change platforms in order to save a couple hundred bucks? I doubt it.


> We'll see how many of these kids plan on buying an iPhone when they are paying for it.

In their thirties?

I'm only half joking: between the Samsung Galaxy S-whatever my parents gave me as a graduation gift and a work provided iPhone, the first phone I paid for myself was in my thirties. Phones are only becoming more durable and expensive and wealth inequality isn't getting any better.


In my experience, people that want an iPhone but can't afford a new one will buy a used/refurb iPhone over an android phone.

It seems like you can get an iPhone 12 in "like new condition" for around $300.


iPhones start at $400, new. Not exactly a budget buster. Pretty much the same as a Pixel Xa.

'teach a kid in their youth, and they will not stray' or something like that.




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