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RE: The bigger the better
By TakinYourPoints on 12/16/2012 9:03:01 PM , Rating: 3
iPhone 5 sales are flopping in China.

I don't care for sales number pissing contests, but what is your assumption based on aside from gut instinct and analyst guesses? Official numbers just came out, three million units sold in the first weekend in China compared to five million units sold to the rest of the world in its first weekend. It is on track to beat 4S sales, which hit 30 million units sold in half the time that the GS3 did.

And yes, China has a massive population and these sales numbers are a drop in the bucket. The thing is that China is basically a Germany or UK attached to a dirt poor country of over 1 billion. Taken in that context the sales numbers are bigger than I thought they would be, just imagine if a Western European country by itself made up for what much in iPhone sales.

As for the billion+ Chinese living in poverty, no way Apple is breaking into that market unless they start selling unsubsidized featurephones (the bulk of Android sales) for almost nothing, and that ain't happening anytime soon.

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