>Teenagers are pretty social and try hard to fit in. This factor alone probably explains why teenagers amplify Apple's market advantage. They have a stronger i

>Teenagers are pretty social and try hard to fit in. This factor alone probably explains why teenagers amplify Apple's market advantage. They have a stronger impulse for conformity with their peers: ie, they tend to all use the same phone as their friends. Coupled with the fact that most of them have more than one social group they identify with, it makes it unlikely that a social subnetwork of teens all using Android could survive the competing peer pressure from neighboring connected social iPhone subnetworks.