iPhones are for Old People says HTC Boss

Speaking at the Mobile Future Forward conference in Seattle, Martin Fichter, acting president of HTC America says that kids don’t find iPhone “cool” anymore since their dads are using them. He made the comment after talking to some students at his daughter’s college.

[L-R: Martin Harriman of LightSquared; Martin Fichter of HTC and Brad Stone of Bloomberg at Mobile Future Forward]

“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 manufacture’s devices.” he said.

“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.” he added.

[Source]- GeekWire

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