Apple is done, say teenagers / Students – CNET News

CNET reports on the fact that Apple, like Facebook, may be over the hill  when it comes to its future consumers, teenagers.

CNET states that “Teens have decided that Apple is, like, so over. If you want to be a veritable cooleratus, you want to be seen with a Samsung Galaxy phone in your hand or a Microsoft Surface laptop / tablet stuck under your arm”

This definitive information comes courtesy of research performed by Buzz Marketing,

As Forbes reports it, one of the sources of this deep technical disturbance is the self-obsession of those older people known as parents.

They have allegedly tended to toss older Apple products at their children, while buying themselves the latest iPhones.

Buzz Marketing’s Tina Wells told Forbes: “Teens are telling us Apple is done. Apple has done a great job of embracing Gen X and older (Millennials), but I don’t think they are connecting with Millennial kids.”

This will surely explain why Microsoft had large numbers of Glee-ful teens dancing away in the launch ad for the Surface.

It may not explain so well why the Surface hasn’t yet sold in limitless numbers.

Still, it’s Apple’s greatest challenge to maintain cachet as its products appear in so many more hands of so many more vintages.

When your logo gets seen too often, it can become a symbol of the establishment, rather than the renegade that teens are often desperate to embrace.

Teens want to believe that they have the inside track and that everyone else is worth nothing more than a snort. Why, they’ll even allegedly drug their parents’ milkshakes in order to get online.

They have great faith in their ability to unearth the novel and decry the status quo. The iPhone 5 was, for them, a little too staid.

As, it transpired this week, is Facebook.

But, as they learn only a little later, their feelings can’t be trusted. Their greatest emotional stability lies in its fickleness.

Which, of course, ought to give hope to brands that haven’t been in teens’ minds for a long time.

I’m thinking of you, Nokia.

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