Eight percent of teens own an iPhone, 22 percent want one

Which means, if you want to reverse the spin, that fully 70 percent of teen-agers could not give a monkeys about Apple's amazing slab of blab.

8% of U.S. teens own an iPhone; 22% want one [CNN Money via Wired]

[#1 posted by Isaac Cates , October 8, 2008 8:02 PM]

Actually, if 22% of the rest want one, that's 20.24% of the total, so you wind up with more like 71.76% not giving a monkey's X. And if a gadget blog can't do percentages correctly, then who will? I ask you: who will?

But I think the article you link to is saying it's just 22% of all teens surveyed, not 22% of the remainder after you remove the 8% that own one. (Also, it says the 22% are planning to buy one soon, not just that they want one.)

But, you know? Whatever.

[#2 posted by Rob Beschizza , October 8, 2008 8:19 PM]

Fixing that headline. Thank you.

[#3 posted by Clay , October 8, 2008 9:04 PM]

With gas so expensive, I guess $70/month to text your friends in class barely feels outrageous at all.

Certainly, it's well worth it in light of the fact that you can now play Super Monkey Ball in hardware-accelerated 3D instead of playing a busted-ass Tetris clone on your TI-83.

As I doubt working after school at the ice cream shop is paying for this, it's good to see parents going the extra mile to ensure the quality of their offspring's education.

[#4 posted by Garr , October 9, 2008 2:10 AM]

Yay, finally I'm not counting among a minority! My self-confidence just grew tenfold.