Some ideas I got from this article:
"I bought an Android phone to differentiate myself from the superficial drones carrying iPhones."
"Nobody wants an iPhone any more, because everyone has an iPhone."
Too many anecdotes, not enough data.
"I bought an Android phone to differentiate myself from the superficial drones carrying iPhones."
"Nobody wants an iPhone any more, because everyone has an iPhone."
Too many anecdotes, not enough data.
That may be true in some things, but it wasn't true of iPhone adoption. How about some good examples where Singapore and Hong Kong lead trends that became big in Western Europe and North America?
America's global cultural hegemony is pretty much guaranteed to diminish over time too. As more and more of the Asian middle and upper classes emerge they're going to drive demand for Asian cultural products. You can already see this happening with the global appeal of Korean pop music and Hong Kong cinema, for example.
I think it is for a couple reasons. One is that a lot of consumer electronics devices are content oriented, and domestic content has shaped the ecosystem (e.g., music -> itunes -> ipod). The other is scale. Japan has been the biggest influencer in the past (Walkman, Nintendo). It was a big enough economy to have its own whole healthy video game industry that it could export over to the US. I think the growing influence of Korea correlates to the healthy growth of the size of economy since the 1997 asian fiscal crisis.
If you're asking for localized sales figures even those could lag behind by several months of the fashion trend. Which can start off in small trend setting circles and expand as word of mouth spreads on what is in. So, I think data this early would not be as pertinent to the conversation as it would be several months down the line to see if this articles thesis is justified.
If they really wanted to be different, they should buy a Windows Phone...
Its hard to say where the truth is. There should be some fatigue over iPhone, but the Android alternatives aren't "good", who wants a second rate phone even if everyone else has the first rate one? Will people start wearing offbrand northpeak jackets because northface jackets are too popular?
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> If they really wanted to be different, they should buy a Windows Phone...
A phone shouldn't be something that defines you as an individual.
Most of my Chinese friends that have bought Android phones have done so solely for price reasons. All the fashionistas I know still use iPhones, I haven't seen one with an Android yet, and this is in Beijing.
Yeah, I did.