When it comes to
Smartphones, It is clearly a battle between Android and iOS. But signs
are emerging that Apple might be losing grip in the two Asian markets.
Conforming
to Reuters report, most of the well-off smartphone users in Singapore and Hong
Kong are turning to Android handsets, mostly Samsung, rather than iOS of
Apple. The trouble that iPhone is their desire to be different that
causing them as weakness and in turn an advantage to competing device.
Reuters states that Apple’s
share of mobile devices in Singapore–iPad and iPhone–fell from a peak of 72
percent in January 2012 to 50 percent this month. As for Android devices, they
now account for 43 percent of the market, up from 20 percent in the same month
last year.
Hong Kong
shows no different aftereffect, iOS devices declined from 45 percent to 30
percent in a year, while Android accounts for about two-thirds of smartphones
used.
These
findings are not surprising at all, maybe not foreseen but definitely not
shocking. We are used to long lines for the new iPhone but we are seeing
longer lines for the Samsung Galaxy S III and Note II LTE in Singapore.
With the
support of our familiarity, we can safely claim that the interest in the
apparent S4 will surely come as another hit in the market for the coming
months.