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I don't think the average phone provider in Cambodia will worry too much about the list revenue from not supporting a particular variant of iPhone 14.

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Guessing you don’t live in Cambodia [0].

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/930856/cambodia-mobile-o...

Don't live there but did visit back in 2017.

Everyone back then had third-hand used stuff that I suspect was mostly ex-eWaste. Smartphones were not ubiquitous.

I see the graph but don't believe it, especially given how much of their economy is tourism.

Only the US variants lack a physical SIM tray.

At least from the Indian experience, I’d wager that tons of iPhones from the US find their way into other countries because it’s way cheaper to get it from there than pay local prices that may include higher customs duties, higher (than US) taxes, etc. It’s possible that a lot of iPhones in Cambodia are/were originally sold in the US.

It will eventually trickle into the low-end android market, especially if it can be used to save cost.

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