The latter premise stems from the latest Taking Stock With Teens survey released on Friday by investment bank Piper Jaffray.
This is a survey performed every six months to see where teens’ fickle minds and feelings are at about certain product categories.
This time, the surveyors talked to 10,000 US teens — up from 6,500 in April. The average age was 16 and the respondents came from households whose average income is $68,000.
For quite some time, these teens have consistently claimed that their next phone will be an iPhone. In April, 75 percent said their next phone would be an iPhone.
Here we are in October, and that number has risen to 79 percent.
Moreover, while in April, 69 percent of teens said they already had an iPhone, in the latest survey 74 percent said they did.