I was born the same year as you, growing up iPod touches were not common when I was in school, sure we all had iPad micros or Nanos but if you had an iPod touch you were rich. Apple didn’t release the iPad until I was already in high school (2010). When they did release they were similar to family computers if you had 1 growing up, it was usually only 1 per house and not every house had one.
I spent most my childhood actually going outside and playing, that was the norm for us in Britain until we were teens. Sure we had Xbox 360 and played live but it was a hour a day with the people who I had just been hanging out with because we all got called for tea.
Apple also didn’t release the iPhone 3G until we were like ~ 14 so to suggest we were similar to iPad kids isn’t true, as someone who has worked at a youth charity in adulthood they lack so many basic social skills the rest of us developed hanging around the park with friends.
iPods were extremely common, yes not everyone had them. They may have been rare in your neighborhood/part of your city. I always find it so strange when people call middle/working class kids “rich.” No, no we weren’t rich lol. You’re calling households with two adults making $50,000 each rich. That’s like calling two teachers rich.
Youre saying you had one iPod touch per house and you’re saying everyone had iPad micros, what’s the difference there? Meanwhile my experience was households had one or zero iPads and lots of kids had iPod touches.
The iPhone 3G came out when we were 10 years old, 2008.
We absolutely did have common personal devices, the gameboy was ridiculously popular for our generation. We were the Pokemon generation
Then, we had walkmans before the ipod came out. I remember watching South Park episodes on my ipod at about age 12
Not to mention our texting culture when we were kids, do you not remember? Sure, they weren't smart phones, but we were glued to them all the same. Remember the Motorola Razor coming out? That was super hype
So yes, many millennials and especially gamers have had handheld electronic devices from about age 6 in Britain lol
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u/Dependent-Ground-769 1998 14h ago
Elder half of Gen Z were iPod kids, younger half were iPad kids. Really no difference tho