“If the 980 students who participate in Piper Jaffray’s bi-annual survey of American teenage buying patterns are any guide, a significant percentage of Apple’s (AAPL) iPhones sold are ending up in the hands of adolescents,” Phillip Elmer-Dewitt reports for Fortune.
“In a report to clients issued this morning, analysts Gene Munster and Michael Olson report that 3% of students surveyed own iPhones and an additional 9% expect to buy an iPhone in the next 6 months [and] 4.2% of 212 parents surveyed own iPhones,” Elmer-Dewitt reports.
It’s “likely that Piper Jaffray’s sample is tilted heavily toward a tech-savvy, upper-middle-class demographic,” Elmer-Dewitt reports. “Still, Munster and Olson’s numbers are useful for showing trends, especially in the MP3 market they’ve been tracking for several years.”
More in the full article, including the finding that iPod market share remained steady at 82%, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mike in Helsinki” for the heads up.]
And how many of those iPhone kids have Macs or are planning to get a mac?
ooohh, lucky little bastards!
mw: students
You said it, Tom – once you’ve got OS X in your pocket it’s not such a leap to have it on the desktop too!
To accomodate this growing market, the next two iPhone buttons will be porn and test answers. Term papers for 99 cents each will be added to the iTunes Store for convenient wi-fi downloads.
“Is that OS X in your pocket or are you just happy to launchd me?”
I know my kids are not going to get one of these over-priced, stolen song filled, doomed pieces of junk.
at my school its all about the dell ditty yo
i have a zune. Why do all the other kids laugh at me?
You can’t trust teens to tell the truth on a survey.
“You can’t trust teens to tell the truth on a survey.”
Or at all.
@ I am Awesome
Do you think the 97% who report not have an iPhone are lying or is it the 3% who report having one?
Or are the little bastards lying?
HEY, YOU KIDS ! ! ! GET OFF MY LAWN ! ! !
Lying little bastards.
It should be noted that zune use is on the rise!
Also noted that dell MP3 players fell to 0%
magic word : progress
Yes, several others saying this same thing –
Who would REALLY believe a bunch of teenagers filling out some survey ?
And only 980 ?
Hell, can’t believe most of the ‘adults’ who post in here
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