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For teens I think the iPhone is more aspirational than actual, which in many ways is worse because you'll never stack up against people's hopes.
by jfarmer 16y ago
For teens I think the iPhone is more aspirational than actual, which in many ways is worse because you'll never stack up against people's hopes.
- sdurkin 16y agoTrue, but I have found that many teens in fact have iPhones. Once the decision is made to buy an internet-capable phone, the main cost is the service plan. Most teens can make up the difference in the fixed cost of the unit through a part time job, a birthday gift, or daddy's money. After the price of the 3G was lowered to $99, even these small differences in cost became nill. The Kin was a ten year old concept, executed with five year old technology, and competing against gadgets from the future. Put simply, it was a mistake, executed poorly.
- stcredzero 16y agoFind a way to deliver 85% of the Kin functionality without a monthly fee, or with a monthly fee with a cheap device, and you could sell to tweens and grade-schoolers.