HTC president Martin Fichter did an affirmation very interesting which for now is far from the reality revealed by the sales of the Apple company. He claims that young Americans don't want to buy iPhone terminals anymore because their parents own one. He made the statement after visiting an American university campus where students had Android terminals instead of iPhone terminals and the motivation for purchasing those terminals was that their parents owned one and for them it was not "cool" to buy the same device.
Apple is innovating. Samsung is innovating. We are innovating. Everybody is innovating. And everybody is doing different things for the end consumers. I brought my daughter back to college — she's down in Portland at Reed — and I talked to a few of the kids on her floor. And none of them has an iPhone because they told me: 'My dad has an iPhone.' There's an interesting thing that's going on in the market. The iPhone becomes a little less cool than it was. They were carrying HTCs. They were carrying Samsungs. They were even carrying some Chinese manufactured devices. If you look at a college campus, Mac Book Airs are cool. iPhones are not that cool anymore. We here are using iPhones, but our kids don't find them that cool anymore.
Practically Android terminals become the second choice because the first option is already owned by parents and in the idea of not buying something considered "uncool", young people choose the Android version. This is the image that the president of HTC is trying to present to us, but Apple's sales show that its devices are increasingly popular, so the situation in a university campus does not apply to the entire territory of the United States. I don't know how many young people have this mentality, but Apple wouldn't have gotten far if they all thought that way.
