Low-Income Users Latch On To iPhone 422
narramissic writes "The iPhone crowd is still dominated by affluent males between the ages of 18 and 35, but in a series of surveys ending in August, ComScore found that iPhone purchases grew fastest among people with annual household incomes between $25,000 and $50,000. The growth rate in this group was 48 percent, compared with just 16 percent among people with incomes above $100,000. And the down economy isn't going to turn this trend around, says ComScore Mobile analyst Jen Wu. 'I don't see there's going to be much of a slowdown, just because wireless devices are so much more of a necessity than they used to be,' Wu said."
In other iPhone news, an anonymous reader points out a NYTimes story about the rise in car-related applications and uses for the iPhone, which points out that programmers are just beginning to "appreciate just what can be done with an iPhone and other advanced cellphones that know where they are and just how quickly they are going someplace else." Another iPhone story mentions that "Opera's engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won't let the company release it because it competes with Apple's own Safari browser."
Moderation test (Score:3, Funny)
The iPhone crowd is still dominated by affluent males between the ages of 18 and 35
Those of us who don't bask in the glow of all things Apple might say they're afflicted as well as affluent.
I need an iPhone Pro, then (Score:2, Funny)
I don't want the same phone that some poorie has. That's the reason I own a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro. No poories allowed!
Under 50k is low income? (Score:1, Funny)
I wish Barack's healthcare plan had that kind of range!
Obama (Score:0, Funny)
Low income? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:not Antitrust (Score:5, Funny)
No, no, no. If I wanted to RTFA I wouldn't be posting on Slashdot. I'm here to make wildly speculative statements on issues on which I have no expertise.
Re:bling (Score:5, Funny)
'Black' is not a skin color, it's a state of mind. I grew up in Detroit -- the "D".
Re:penis (Score:3, Funny)
I just fucked my girlfriend bearback
I hope that was supposed to be "bareback", because otherwise your girlfriend is really fucking hairy.
re: Arbitrary? (Score:3, Funny)
Really, I don't see this at all? About the ONLY time an app for the iPhone was denied by Apple on what was obviously an "arbitrary" decision was that useless "Pull My Finger" app. (If you ask me, Apple's biggest mistake here might simply have been letting too many other "lame" apps through. Banning "Pull My Finger" makes sense to me, if they're thinking "Hey, this isn't something that shows off our product in a positive light. People are going to see this and think the quality of things you can buy in our store is much lower than it really is." But they missed another dozen or so apps that needed to be given the boot too. Maybe they were too generous?)
Just about every other time, it amounts to someone trying to release an app that would have wound up offering some kind of functionality that duplicated something Apple was working on and secretly planning for a firmware update, or encouraged people to stop using the default app Apple included for the task in question.
(Oh, and there was the "tethering" app, which seems to have been killed off only because AT&T wouldn't go for it, despite Apple trying to work something out to bring it back.)
This might piss off the minority who really wanted to use Opera as their browser instead of Safari, on their iPhone. But trust me... 99.9% of iPhone users don't really care.
Re:No money? Just use a credit card! (Score:5, Funny)
My sister, her baby and her baby's daddy used to live with me back when I was first out of college. I asked her to help out by paying some rent and she told me that she was so broke that she had to eat at McDonalds. That statement almost caused me to choke on my ramen.