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On my own anecdotal evidence, I have to say he's wrong. I haven't been out of school for very long, still live in a college town, and have friends in college, a
by culturestate 15y ago
On my own anecdotal evidence, I have to say he's wrong. I haven't been out of school for very long, still live in a college town, and have friends in college, and I can tell you that they are (generally) carrying Android devices for a small handful of reasons, none of which has to do with their cool factor:
1) It was subsidized cheaply on their family plan.
2) They have a non-AT&T carrier (or bought before the iPhone was on Verizon)
3) Their parents bought it for them
4) They have some other non-Apple bias (iPhone isn't open, Macs suck, etc.)
Among those that fall into the first three categories, most actively want an iPhone. We'll know when the iPhone has lost its cool status the same way we knew the BlackBerry had: when Taylor Swift, et. al. start carrying Droids en masse.
- NickPollard 15y agoI think this is largely true, but the converse is that the only big reason people buy iPhones IS the 'cool factor' (ie. marketing). That's why HTC want to challenge that. In the UK at least, I see a lot of people with iPhones and also a lot with android phones (mostly HTCs). However, when people see my Nexus One, they often say 'Oh is that an iPhone?' because the word iPhone is synonymous with touchscreen phones. The iPhone has the brand and the public awareness which is what helps it sell. If HTC or other Android partners manage to erode that, they could stand to gain heavily. A huge portion of smartphone customers really don't know or care about the differences (good or bad) between one smartphone and another.