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India Overtakes the US To Become the World's Second Largest Smartphone Market (techcrunch.com)
A reader shares a report: Move over America, India is now the world's second largest smartphone market. That's according to a new report from Canalys which claims smartphone shipments in India crossed the 40 million mark for the first time in Q3 2017 courtesy of 23 percent annual growth. That means that India has overtaken the U.S. on sales with only China ahead of it. Given the huge gulf in populations -- India's stands at over 1.3 billion while the U.S. is around 320 million -- the move had been expected for some time, but recent developments, including demonetization in late 2016, set progress back during recent quarters. "This growth comes as a relief to the smartphone industry. Doubts about India's market potential are clearly dispelled by this result," Canalys analyst Ishan Dutt said in a statement.
Smarphone? Check ...
Indoor Plumbing?
Obviously you aren't in India. Otherwise you would say "I dropped my phone on the sidewalk"
Wow, the country with the second largest population is the second largest market. Who could believe it?
Chasing the dragon's tail of profits makes companies do funny things. Saturating a market for one. Make sure everyone who wants one has one and then what? You release a new version. Fine but what features are you going to sell it on? And what happens when you run out of new features? From what we've seen so far, you start removing things from the base product and hope no one remembers it in a year or two when you reintroduce it.
Or you jump ships and find a market that's not saturated to the same extent and do the whole thing over there. Never stopping once to think the consequences of your actions through. Why? Because profits.
So where do they out source their Tech Support to? ;)
Given the claim at the end of the summary, I went to RTFA to see if these were el-cheaply phones or the kind of phone manufacturers actually would want to sell. Unfortunately Tech Crunch’s site seems to be totally borked on my smartphone’s display... so I still don’t know the answer.
#DeleteChrome
The Indian smartphone market may be larger in unit volume. However, they are likely lower priced models. I suspect the US market is larger in terms of smart phone revenue, where people will line up to pay $1000 for the new iPhone.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Oh fuck off.
The CEO of Microsoft is an Indian. One of his first moves was to direct Microsoft's withdrawal from the phone market.
Not being a huge fan of India, I'm fairly sanguine about the news. Smartphones are mostly an scourge on concentration and social skills. Let the Indians lap them up and poison their kids and culture with them, too. If they didn't they'd have more than just the H1B program helping them trash the American job market - they'd have an actual *advantage* (other than only being cheap, English speaking, and numerous like today).
That shows that it means nothing. It is like saying "China has more schools than Luxemburg".
What you need is at least comparing it per capita. and then we see the US in place 118 and India in place 158.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Knowing India, most of the sales are knockoff iPhones running horribly compromised Android builds.
#MAGA
All those folks need the GPS capabilities to find the nearest designated shitting street.
Smartphones are not an indication of quality of life. Wealth and power are, and in those two measures the USA is still unquestioningly #1.
A bunch of low-end phones isn't exactly the way things go.
"Forget the engineers." -Carly Fiorina, briber of MIT Technology Review.
why cause what he said was true?
Same thing.
No shit, Sherlock.
I bet the latest iPhone model doesn't cost $1k in India like it does in the U.S.
Government wants the cell phones to be tied to Aadhar. To combat terrorism, they say. Some states are opposing this.
This requirement could drag down phone sales and market size. Or a scramble to acquire more burner phones before the Aadhar tie up is completed.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
The average selling prices in India are far lower than in many other countries, so India still has quite a ways (i.e., many years) to catch the US in terms of revenue. See this link for some idea of the units and revenues. [The link shows stats per region, but North America is dominated by the US, and emerging Asia is dominated by India.] The average selling prices in India, China, and the US are $180, $332, and $400, respectively.
A bunch of games I play have global chat (split into channels obviously, due to sheer number of users).
I see the dumbass Indians saying dumbass things, most often:
1. "I am your father"
2. "Who here is girl?"
The poor, uncivilized trash is getting online. This is like teaching Alabamans to read. It's a form of progress, but it very definitely takes the world backwards.
No shit, Sherlock.
...yet. Wait for it....