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"for affluent, white, middle-aged, American males with a taste for minimalism" So what do you reckon, what would a perfect smartphone for black, middle-aged Am

• bane 15y ago
  For the last few years, if you add "part of the hip hop culture", it's been a Blackberry. Recently, I've seen a lot more high end Android devices, but a few of my friends have gone back to flip phones surprisingly.
• ZeroGravitas 15y ago
  Well these stats seem to suggest that iPhone is half as popular with the African-American demographic (with RIM and "other" noticeably more popular): http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/among-mobile-phone-users-hispanics-asians-are-most-likely-smartphone-owners-in-the-u-s/ http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/among-mobile-ph... And this suggests that "Demographically, Android phones are especially common among young adults and African-Americans, while iPhones and Blackberry devices are most prevalent among college graduates and the financially well-off." http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2054/smartphone-ownership-demographics-iphone-blackberry-android http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2054/smartphone-ownership-demogr... Blackberry seems to win, probably through being an early provider of group messaging to a young, early-adopter demographic on one side and a business staple on the other and the twin lock-ins that provides. Though note that "white people" are about 10-15 years older than other categories on average so white, middle-aged, and affluent kind of go together and can be hard to tease apart.