Interesting
How many of the Chinese Android phones don't have Google's "Blob", the spyware comprising Play Store and Location Services? Or don't have a Google browser as default?
Which would Europeans rather have spying on them? Chinese or Google?
Huawei is breathing over Apple's shoulder as Chinese brands make inroads into Western smartphone markets. But it's also a testament to China's regional economic policy as it reaps the rewards of selling into emerging economies that neighbour the mainland, Gartner's Anshul Gupta told us. In Gartner's latest quarterly survey …
I'd rather have the Chinese spy on me, cause they really wouldn't care too much about what I bought in the last month or where, cause it doesn't do their advertisers any good and the Chinese government also isn't concerned with me, since I'm not one of their subjects.
In a word, they don't give a rats ass about me, unlike Google and the global central banking cartel.
Now, if I was Chinese, I'd likely prefer Google to grind through all my data, down to when I fell asleep without brushing my teeth with some toxic fluoride concoction.
"The trend we are seeing in all markets is that people are spending more money providing they are getting a better experience. Rather than choosing the most affordable ones."
Never mind that I'm seeing the absolute exact opposite all across the board wherever I look, in no uncertain terms - I'm not an esteemed "analyst" so what do I know...
test lab for new products and models!
Many of the 'new' models introduced to Western markets are the last half-fiscal years offering here in VietNam.
We might only have 90-million odd live souls in VietNam but the ACTIVE cell handset population is nearing 130-million!
Samsung has numerous production facilities scattered across the country, particularly concentrated on Ha Noi and Metro Ho Chi Minh City. Samsung boasts over six service centres here in SaiGon!
I could believe it, infrastructure is pretty good, people seem pretty well educated as well, and they are sinking a fair chunk of their gdp into things like education. It's one to watch.
Also I would have thought that for phone markets Asia is where it is at to some degree, uptake of smartphones and all the things that can be done with them seem to have penetrated more (IMO) throughout SE Asia far more than the UK.