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Clear Geographic Split Shows iPhone 6 Plus Especially Popular With Asian Customers
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No... Just no.. Larger screen phone will only become more popular over time. There is no to to turning back. People are using their phones for more stuff, larger screen clearly benefits that. I will never turning back to small phones, it just feel too cramped.
Companies that popularized big 5.5" phones like Oppo, LG, Sony, HTC, and Samsung are FROM Asia. How is this surprising?
I think it's more likely that they are going to be wanting an iPhone, and will go with whatever size the sales person convinces them to get which if there is only a 6 in stock that's what they'll get sold on. I don't see many people who aren't obsessed with technology pouring through all of the spec sheets and having a really firm idea of exactly which model they want to buy, more likely they will know if they want an iPhone or an android.
Same here. My iPhone 6+ doesn't feel like a "phablet". It feels like a phone. I don't have particularly large hands either.
They are more in tune with their ocular receptors and derive more serene pleasure from the eye candy due to a higher level of mental patience on average due to the lower test levels in the ethnic group on average.
its kind of like how eastern philosophy is based around meditation and focus while other cultures have more "aggression" in their culture.
Well focus is the opposite of aggression. Its why there aren't many Asians in the NBA but also most NBA players can barely put sentences together or care to sculpt Banzai trees as a form of relaxation.
There have been new studies that show Europeans and Asians have 2-5% elements of Neanderthal DNA which points to differences in how human brains work and the amount of lipids in various ethnic groups.
Pretty much, they are more likely to focus on, and enjoy the screen because of the way the brains and eyes work. They are almost having sex with it while other people don't really have patience for that and focus on other more physical based perceptions of reality. Smart people see their body as a vessel that carries their brain. Athletic people are more in a mind-body connection and see the body as themselves and it happens to carry their brain.
I know its not scientific but sometimes science doesn't have a way to test these things. I just have been friends with a lot of people on a lot of continents from early ages and I have notice patterns. I moved around a lot as a child and met many people in a way most people never had a chance to experience which is way more than any sociological tests can claim because there are no methods to test such elusive concepts.
In my whole life, my theories have never been met with examples that don't fit into my exploration of the influence of testosterone and the patterns in culture that originate from the dictation of the machinations of testosterone.
All machinations have to come from a simple place because evolution is relatively simple logistical mechanism that dictates patterns in our cultures.
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Some? I tHink most. Many people with iPhone 6 are jealous I have a 6 plus because they couldn't get one
I suspect that the same principle is true in western markets as well. Lower socio-economic groups that are trying to do everything on one device are probably more likely to buy the larger phone. If you have a phone and an iPad having a smaller phone may be more attractive from a pocket ability perspective. It would be interesting to get a survey of how many devices different people have and whether ownership of a tablet was inversely correlated with phone screen size.
Haha, when you put it that way it sounds even more ridiculous. I'm not sure if I agree that the general public has better self-control and/or patience when it comes to many things, but for technology they likely don't care.
Take my mom for instance. She's fairly tech savvy for a mom and not very old since she had me when she was a teen. She's on an iPhone 4S, but heard that her bank and many of the stores she shops at will support Apple Pay. So she starts asking me questions about getting an iPhone 6 because even she understands that this new system is more secure after some places she shops at got hacked and she had to order new cards. But when I told her back in September that she better order quickly or they might run out, she was like "Well I'll just get one later this autumn then."
But then you have people like my uncle who has a Kindle Fire, iPad Mini 2, iPad Air 2, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 5S, rMBP, a few windows machines, a Nokia Lumia whatever with Cortana and a bunch of other gizmos and he orders a 64GB 6 Plus at 2am on launch night even though he wanted a 128GB because they ran out before his order went through. He's clearly not the typical customer and has been tech crazy my whole life.
Thank you. I was thinking the same thing. In the US, at least, Samsung and others have touting screen size as their strength vs Apple. Without knowing for sure how they address the Asian markets, it's reasonable to assume they harp on that same value proposition.
So, the home team has been singing the praises of larger screens for years... of course the larger screens are gonna be a hit!
Keep in mind that a lot of 6 Plus iPhone models that were sold in Australia were to Chinese customers who were probably bringing them back to China.
When I pre-ordered I was told I could probably get the six on the release date while a 6 Plus might be delayed two weeks or longer. I held out for the 6 plus. I'm glad I did. I love the size. I don't wear tight pants so the 6 Plus fits comfortably in my front pocket, case and all.
I used to make fun of phablet users and their "huge phones" but I have discovered I was wrong. I'll never go back to a smaller phone.
I used to make fun of phablet users and their "huge phones" but I have discovered I was wrong. I'll never go back to a smaller phone.
Interesting to know that they have better wireless than us. I was not aware of it. I have not been to Asian countries in over 10 years (I used to live there). My guess was a longer commute on train / buses, nice to have a bigger screen.
The main reason for that is less legacy infrastructure. US-based and other western carriers invested gobsmacks of money and effort on 2G, 2.5G, 2.75G, 3G and 3.5G wireless systems. They want that money back.
In contrast, some countries/carriers had very basic systems (1G) and and moved right to LTE/4G. LTE is downright cheap compared to any other technology, it can be 10-20x cheaper than UMTS for example.
For me it wasn't a matter of acceptance due to lack of stock. A. it was $. $100 is a fair bit of cash for the bigger screen and B. Size... while I really wanted the longer battery life, bigger screen and OIS camera, the sheer physical size of the 6+ wasn't for me, I walk a lot with my iPhone as my activity tracker. I picked up the 6+ and it was just too big to use comfortably as a phone. So I went with the 6.
I'm not a fan of phablets, but I can see how they would be favored by certain users, namely those who want a single device that straddles the fence between a smartphone and a tablet.
I don't see where you get the idea that Apple is abandoning the iPad Mini, given it's on its third version, sporting a Retina display and Touch ID.
I think the real mistake is assuming that there's a single, magical form factor that everyone should embrace.
I'm no sociologist, but I know that in Japan at least a large portion of the population commutes long distances through public transportation. Larger devices would certainly be helpful for passing the time in this situation.
Definitely not. The 6 models shipped much quicker when I was watching threads waiting on my phone. They're also available in stores a lot more. Even now.