One-Third Of Teens Plan To Buy An iPhone Soon (AAPL)

Teenagers are fickle, but one thing never seems to change.

They love Apple products.

More than one-third plan on buying an iPhone in the next six months, and 20% are planning to buy a tablet -- which probably means iPad.

Among MP3 players and online music services, the iPod and iTunes are the only ones that matter.

That's according to Piper Jaffray's latest bi-annual survey of high school students, now in its 21st year. This time, the firm asked 4,500 kids about their interest in Apple products and digital music.

Here are some of the highlights:

• 17% already own an iPhone, and 37% plan on buying one in the next 6 months.

• 22% either own a tablet or have one in their house, and 20% of them plan to buy one in the next 6 months.

• Only 80% now own an MP3 player -- down from 90% last fall. More teens are listening to music on their cell phone (53% versus 50% last fall), so that may account for some of the drop. Or maybe MP3 players are no longer cool.

• Of the teens who own MP3 players, 86% of them have an iPod. Microsoft's Zune is in distant second at 3%.

• Of the teens who download music, 65% use file-trading services. Among the legal services, iTunes has 95% market share.

• There is some small glimmer of hope for Spotify, Rhapsody, and other subscription services -- 37% of teens said they'd consider paying $15 a month for a music subscription.

Here are the complete results for iPhones and tablets:

And for the MP3 player question:

Finally, the full chart for online music habits:

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• CHART OF THE DAY: Android Blows Past iPhone -- Even If You Include iPod Touch
• Here's The Right Way For Developers To Think About The Apple Vs. Android Race
• Here's Why Google Is Right To Seize Control Over Android

One-Third Of Teens Plan To Buy An iPhone Soon (AAPL)

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Mainland Ecuador with Teens

Senior editor Norie Quintos, who edits the annual Tours of a Lifetime package in the magazine, recently returned from a trip to the Galapagos and mainland Ecuador with her teen sons. This is the last of a four-part series. Click to read the first, second, and third posts.

A confession: Travel editors don't always plan their trips perfectly. Having focused all my attention on the Galapagos, I gave short shrift to mainland Ecuador, only allowing for three days (over the objections of my consultants--Justin Laycob of Seattle-based Southern Explorations and Alfredo Menenses of Quito-based Ecuador Adventure. Dudes! You were right, I was wrong.)

Here's our day-by-day itinerary, and what I would have added had I a chance for a do-over.

Day 1: Biking in the Andes

From Quito, we drove down the north-south Pan-American Highway along the Avenue of the Volcanoes, so called because the road is flanked on both sides by some of the world's highest volcanoes, several of which are disquietingly active. (One volcano, Tungurahua, burped a mini-cloud of smoke and ash before our very eyes.) We had a picnic lunch within sight of another--snow-capped Cotapaxi. It was a beautiful drive, the air crisp and clear, the diaphanous white clouds and pastoral green valleys belying the turbulence below ground. This was the setting for our mountain-biking adventure. For teenagers: Cycling on the sides of fire-breathing volcanoes is a singular thrill. For parents: You'll put existential worries aside for immediate ones like staying on the bike on the killer downhills.

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Galápagos with Teens: Weird Science

Senior editor Norie Quintos, who edits the annual Tours of a Lifetime package in the magazine, recently returned from a trip to the Galápagos Islands and mainland Ecuador with her teen sons. This is the third of a four-part series. Click here to read the first and second posts.

As a mom who likes to sneak Good Things into her kids (a splash of carrot juice in the morning o.j., grated zucchini in a chocolate cake, a cautionary newspaper article left next to the comics), I never go on vacation without hatching a secret curriculum/lesson plan. The Galápagos, however, turned out to be less science lab and more field trip. And, happily for all, I was less lecturing professor and more do-nothing chaperone. Here are the lessons we learned (all without me having to lift a finger): 

Real life beats virtual life. Not to knock HD cable nature channels, including our own Nat Geo Wild, but there's nothing like being there. The Galápagos Islands engaged all our senses, not just the visual and auditory, and that makes jaded teens sit up and pay attention. The acrid aroma of bird guano; the screams of a Galápagos hawk; the warm stubble of lava rock; and the meaty bite of locally sourced and sustainable wahoo. And the sight of the iconic blue-footed booby was arresting enough to make me wonder whether there was a universal hue control I should dial down. Perhaps the most sensual experience was being in the ocean with a sea lion that effortlessly bobbed and weaved, and rushed headlong at us like a missile only to veer off at the last possible second. My play-it-cool teens were giddy as toddlers to be part of the underwater Cirque de Soleil. 

Evolution is No Big Deal: Here in these islands, the word evolution isn't one loaded with political or religious overtones. It's the most reasonable explanation for why tortoises on one island have a saddle back and those on another have a dome back. Or why finches on different islands, so similar otherwise, have starkly varying beaks perfectly suited to the vegetation of that island. Over thousands of years, living things adapted to varying environments. The animals or plants with the beneficial variations thrived and in time created new species. This is the backbone of evolutionary theory. It's simple, really, and on the Galápagos, quite obvious.

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Watch Out, Teens! 10% Of Your Parents Are Hacking In To Your Facebook Accounts

Attention, teenagers: your parents may be logging in to your Facebook account without your knowledge.

TRUSTe just released a report on privacy issues related to teens, their parents, and social networks. The most surprising result:

40% of parents said their teens had given them login access to their accounts, and another 10% said they had obtained access without their teens knowing about it.

Really? 1 in 10 parents think it's OK to spy on their kids without their knowledge? That's pretty disturbing.

See all the other survey results here →

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• Parents Aren't Worried About Facebook Privacy, Partly Because They Don't Understand It
• CHART OF THE DAY: Teens Text 3,339 Times Per Month!

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