Apple is done, say teens

[Kaido]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57563665-71/apple-is-done-say-teens/

This article made me lol...the iTouch and iPhone are the most-wanted devices among the kids & teens I know. They seem even more popular than handheld gaming consoles. Yawn.

 

[JackBurton]

LOL, a Microsoft Surface under your arm. LOL!!!

 

[PokerGuy]

I don't think apple is done by any stretch of the imagination, my own obviously tiny and non-scientifically-significant sample confirms this. In December before Christmas I was talking to my nieces and nephews and some of their friends. I asked them what they'd like for Christmas and what was "cool" right now. The nearly universal answer was that "beats" headphones and samsung galaxy phones is what they wanted, and that apple ipod/iphone/ipad was not cool anymore -- that was for mom and dad.

Teenage tastes are notoriously fickle, but Apple probably has a lot of people in the marketing firms working on making sure they don't lose the "cool" image among the next gen.

 

[Oyeve]

Apple is, IMO, for hipster 20+ year olds. Teens preference changes all the time. I dont think apple is aiming for them at this point because, yeah, teens get bored easy.

 

[Kaido]

I don't think apple is done by any stretch of the imagination, my own obviously tiny and non-scientifically-significant sample confirms this. In December before Christmas I was talking to my nieces and nephews and some of their friends. I asked them what they'd like for Christmas and what was "cool" right now. The nearly universal answer was that "beats" headphones and samsung galaxy phones is what they wanted, and that apple ipod/iphone/ipad was not cool anymore -- that was for mom and dad.

Teenage tastes are notoriously fickle, but Apple probably has a lot of people in the marketing firms working on making sure they don't lose the "cool" image among the next gen.

I think that's why we've been seeing all the rumors for colorized iDevices...the teens will be getting to the point where they've grown up on iPods and iTouches and will be graduating to smartphones with expensive data plans, so why not a blue or pink iPhone?

 

[ultimatebob]

It makes sense...

1) Teenagers thinks that their parents are uncool
2) Their parents have an iPhone... mostly because their friends/coworkers had one and THEY wanted to fit in, or they couldn't figure out how to use the Android demo models at the cell phone store.
3) Teenagers associate the iPhone with their uncool parents, and get the new upstart "cool" phone instead.
4) Samsung and HTC laugh all the way to the bank!

 

[Zaap]

"...They're more impressed by Samsung's Galaxy and Microsoft's Surface."

Heh. Okay, I'm going to entertain this alternate universe for a second...

Teens think iPads, iPods, iPhones and MacBooks are uncool. Because their parents have them. So Apple is for old people.

Conversely... they think Microsoft is kickass. (No way their parents have anything made by them). Teens are all clamoring for a Surface. Because it's cool, and it's made by that kickass hip company Microsoft.

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HAHAHAHA!

Sorry, had to exit that alternate universe because it's too damn silly!

There are probably 4 maybe 5 teens in existence that really want a Surface vs. an iPad. Maybe 8 total that even know what the hell one is.

If Apple is unhip TODAY, then Microsoft was unhip 30 years ago! The only thing MS ever did that even remotely qualified as hip by teens was the XBox.

And even as big of a Samsung fan as I am, I doubt very seriously that the Galaxy line is really seen as cooler than the iPhone by most teens. I know damn well the Galaxy tablets are not more in demand than iPads among teens. (Or really anyone for that matter).

That piece is either:
1. Not very obvious parody, IE: "Teens have decided that Apple is, like, so over. If you want to be a veritable cooleratus, you want to be seen with a Samsung Galaxy phone in your hand or a Microsoft Surface laptoppy tablet stuck under your arm." Can't possibly have been written without tongue firmly planted in cheek.

2. A puff-piece sponsored by none other than Microsoft. (Not Samsung, because they're quite a bit more saavy and MS has a history of being totally blinded by their own wanna-be hipness that they perpetrate breathtaking lameness like The Kin and promote Windows 7 launch parties.

3. Utter cluelessness or wishful thinking, or a combination of both.

 

[joshhedge]

CNET has posted a couple of ridiculous articles on Apple recently, including this one. Here in the UK Apple is just going from strength to strength. Samsung has seemed to have moped up HTC and BlackBerry though.

 

[Attic]

Doesn't pass the smell test. I still see 10 teens with an iPad/iPhone before and IF I see a single one with anything else. I also happened to pass by Apple and MS stores over the holidays and the only teen in the MS was wearing a name tag.

Lot of FUD going around regarding Apple. Likely due to a market play prior to Earnings report next week.