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iPhone 5's First Weekend Sales in China Top Two Million
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What Steve Jobs did was create really great products that people wanted when be came back as CEO of Apple. However, it seems lately, the iPhone/iOS platform is getting mundane. Times to get things rolling again.
Having googled: currently rural vs. urban population in (Mainland) China is approximately 50/50 -- so: about half live like that.
2 million sold in a country of 1.4b people isn´t that high. But I think its a suitable number for such an expensive phone as apple sells. Android is sold on a lot of cheap products. People sort of forget that apple makes high quality and design products that isn´t really aimed at the average user (or at least it shouldnt be). All apple products are made for the upper middle class and up. THe fact that so many walks around with an iphone today is really amazing, a lot of people must have really struggled to save up for that phone....which also proves that apple has managed to dig deep into poor pockets for their expensive products...which is impressive in a way. It´s gonna be interesting to see if the day comes when Foxconn workers walk around with an iphone each, which they saved up for over a long period of time.
Check out the median (as in 50th percentile) in personal wealth before updating. The ones living in the Foxconn dorms are probably above that.
How does that benefit the consumer?
easy, get an android for free. those copy the iphone for free. the condumer wins... so says fandroid folks.
So the person who was posting that there were huge give-aways to incent iPhone sales in China was ignoring the fact that ATT/Sprint/VZ each "give-away" $450 of incentive on each iPhone sold....I doubt the goodies given in China approach this level of incentive.
And most of the Chinese population live in conditions like this:
![rural-village-in-china.jpg]()
The mountain in the background looks like one giant roller coaster to me
Prices for a 16gb with a 2 year contract in RMB:
66/month 4299 phone
96/month 3999 phone
126/month 3599 phone
156/month 3299 phone
186/month 2999 phone
226/month 2599 phone
286/month 1899 phone
386+/month free phone
The mountain in the background looks like one giant roller coaster to me
The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for the word "roller coaster" is "pass-mountain-car"
800 million out of 1.35 billion people are relatively poor peasants or workers. I say the number is very impressive given the recent report about Android's 90%+ market share in China. Back here in Macrumors a lot of people were bashing Apple in the other thread about the non-existence of waiting lines outside Apple Stores in China
The major factor for Android so popular in China is because they are cheap. You could easily get one Android handset in less than 120 USD in China. As many people stated the fact that majority of mainland China people only earning tiny salary. So, as only Android is providing cheap smartphone, it could easily take high penetration rate.
Moreover, a non-official fact that Android is easier for pirated software while iPhone (especially latest IOS 6 devices) is almost impossible. Only some rich people or people who don't mind to pay for apps do find the iPhone good.
I know quite some friends living in mainland and when I asked why they choose Android, they offer me the same answer - "All sofware are "free" "
But 1 billion only earn $2.53/week, they're prolly saving up for the iPhone 12
A restaurant worker can afford an iPhone5, are you kidding? Have you been to China and see a typical restaurant in small towns and outside of Beijing and Shanghai center? They are lucky to afford a regular smart phone.
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No use talking to trolls.
Why do everyone assume I am kidding, I was born and raised in China.
Let's do the math here, a restaurant worker can rake in about $2000 yuan + bonus a month. All of his or her living expenses (food + housing) are covered by the restaurant (typical practice). With no taxes on those money, a person can save up to $24000 yuan + bonus annual. That's about 4 grand in the banks or gadgets.
Now keep in mind I am only talking about a restaurant worker here. Though it is true about what you said regarding rural restaurants, but the majority of restaurants are not there.
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Actually it took Samsung a little less than 2 months to hit 10 million which is the fastest selling Andriod smartphone so no need to compare another.. It's Arch nemesis (iphone5) however, hit 5 million (half) in just the first weekend. Although it was predicted to hit 6mil it still is record breaking (It's Predecessor the iPhone 4S hit 4mil and it's opening weekend) and yes I have a reference. Or u can look up the hundreds of links saying the same thing on other search engines if u like #
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/samsung/9419878/Samsung-Galaxy-S3-breaks-10-million-sales.html
http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/24/technology/apple-iphone-5-sales/index.html
And most of the Chinese population live in conditions like this:
![rural-village-in-china.jpg]()
Looks a lot nicer place to live than NYC
Totally agreed, also, it depends on location. Workers in ShenZhen Foxconn may earn like 500-600 USD in average monthly while other Foxconn factories may only earn half of that.
Have you ever been to China? last time I went, everyone and their mother had a smart phone and I wasn't even in the richest Chinese cities.
I just don't get why a lot of people need to compare android phones to iPhone. There are way more cell phone companies that uses android os while IOS is exclusive to just apple. Obviously the amount of Android users will outnumber the IOS. I would love to see whats the best weekend sales figure for Samsung Galaxy s3 was.
Even in Hong Kong, people like to say that everything is free for Android.
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Minimum wage in Shenzhen is CNY1600 (USD256).
References for the truth are usually easy enough to find but I was wondering where he got the less optimistic than reality sgs3 figures from.
