@JPack
If you just want to trumpet what you know best, go on. There is a huge difference between can't buy and won't buy an iPhone. This is India we are talking about, we have huge population. Percentage will mean nothing, and you are just going by some weird notion and completely unwilling to see anything else, even though there is a healthy discourse going on here that can enlighten you, you do not seem to be acknowledging.
Population of USA is roughly 33 cores.
Smartphone penetration stands at 69 percent. Wow! 69 percent! But hey, that is roughly 23 cores.
Now, population of India is 132 crores.
Smartphone penetration stands at a measly, meagre, disgustingly low 22.4%. Hell. Poor Indians. Most of them can't afford a smartphone. You know what? That is over 29.5 cores.
In terms of people who own smartphones, we are 6.5 crore people
more than the people in USA who own smartphones.
Are you getting it? Percentage points is meaningless if you do not know the full picture, which many here are trying to help you see, but you refuse.
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Now, about 4G. India's Reliance Jio is the largest data network in the world. Indians, the poor Indians who cannot afford smartphones, according to you, are consuming over 16000 TB of data per day. Yes, 16000 and Terabytes. How do you think we are doing that if we cannot afford a smartphone and consider buying a two wheeler luxury?
I have told you in my posts before, Indians are a unique complex mixture of affordability and value. There is nothing wrong in it. In another of your posts you have exclaimed at how Apple's strategy is not working only in India. This is entirely possible, sir, because Apple might just have failed at getting the pulse and sentiment of the people here. Is that too far fetched a theory for a close to trillion dollar company? Yes, because they have the resources for it, and no, it is not far fetched, because India has never really been an equal market for Apple.
I agree that in part the government is to blame, but the government is still just looking after benefit of its people by trying to create jobs within the country, than just making for a consumption country. Nothing wrong in that, either.
Which world are you living in? Certainly not in the current world, kind sir.
