Lower-Income Users Boost Sales of Apple's iPhone (file under: Bush starves families)

Yahoo! Tech ^ | Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:33PM EDT | NewsFactor

[PressurePoint]

A new study reports that the strongest growth in purchases of Apple's iPhones comes from those earning less than the median household income

According to the digital-media research firm comScore, iPhone adoption since June soared 48 percent among those earning $25,000 to $50,000 annually, and by 46 percent among those earning between $25,000 to $75,000. Under $25,000, the growth rate was 16 percent.

[PressurePoint]

Capitalism has brought us the worst economy since the Great Depression. Families can barely scrape by. If you're not a millionaire, it's hard to afford food to eat, a roof over your head, or help for your sick baby .... Oh, wait, wha the heck???

America has the richest poor in the world ... must be time for a "change."

[bolobaby]

Ah, yes. “Poverty” in America.

[ari-freedom]

[cherry]

so we make more money than those incomes and few bucks in the bank.....why don't I have an Iphone ?

reminds me of the patient who came in newly diabetic....he said health insurance was too expensive so he didn't carry it, yet he had a smack dang new cell phone and lap top...

there is no discipline out there ....no impulse control...no looking to the future...

[NonValueAdded]

“No milk or snacks for my kids but I got my acrylic nails and my iPhone.”

[KarlInOhio]

If there is another depression I'm going into the hat business. Every picture just shows crowds of men with hats, and someone has to provide them.

[yldstrk]

The “poor” have hotter cell phones than the so called rich.

[fightinJAG]

What a rotten country.

[KarlInOhio]

The iPhone isn't so expensive: a few hundred dollars divided over a three year expected life span isn't too bad. The killer is the required phone and data contract. You can easily drop $1000/year once you pay for the phone bill plus taxes on it.

[BfloGuy]

Gee, do you suppose it has anything to do with the fact that the young are much more likely to buy new electronic gadgets? And that the young typically make less money? Nah.

[3AngelaD]

Don’t worry, once BO is elected, all of us will get free, government-provided fancy-schmancy iPhones and the government will bail us out if we can’t pay for the service contracts. Spreading it around, dontcha know.

[PressurePoint]

I paid more in taxes last year than these so-called "low-income earners" made in gross income. Meanwhile, because I'm prudent and don't spend money I ain't got, I can't afford an iPhone.

I hear about the price of gas, the cost of energy, the high cost of food, healthcare, and housing. But the biggest bill I pay all year goes to Uncle Sam. Maybe we wouldn't have to worry about the price of all these other things if we got to keep more of our paychecks.

And maybe I could buy an iPhone too.

[CE2949BB]

If you’re poor and you buy an iPhone, you’ll always be poor.

You, obviously, care more about an immediate boost in your social status than investing in your future.

[MrB]

This is why giving money to the poor doesn’t make them NOT POOR.

They always will spend it on items that decrease in value, or are consumed.

[PressurePoint]

What a rotten country.

That's a downright mean statement.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

That photo needs to be shopped to have a guy in line with an IPod...

[N3WBI3]

One of the condo’s in my development is rented out via section-8 and while the woman is nice enough (her kids stay out of trouble, ..., ...) They just got cable today.. Assuming its the most basic package that’s 50$ a month..

[conservative cat]

I see so many on food stamps or Medicaid who have nice electronics (including blue tooths for their phones), acrylic nails, Coach bags, and D&G sunglasses.

[fightinJAG]

I left off the /s button and hope you did too!

[PressurePoint]

Don’t worry, once BO is elected, all of us will get free, government-provided fancy-schmancy iPhones and the government will bail us out if we can’t pay for the service contracts. Spreading it around, dontcha know.

What's sad is how many people voting for Obama actually believe we could give the poor everything they want for eternity if not for the evil rich.

I was talking to a Hopeshirter the other day (she's been unemployed for years) who insisted the government should pay for cars for everyone because cars are a "necessity."

I asked her why anyone would work to produce cars if all of life's necessities were provided by the government. She said the question didn't make sense.