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"Also, $350-$400 (may be even $500 for topend) is a sweet spot for smart phones in India. " Given that the average Indian worker makes less than $6k a year, I'
by ajg1977 16y ago
"Also, $350-$400 (may be even $500 for topend) is a sweet spot for smart phones in India. "
Given that the average Indian worker makes less than $6k a year, I'm not sure I'd really describe those figures as a "sweet spot".
- ankeshk 16y agoYou can't go by averages. Average wages are low in India. But India also has more billionaires than UK or Germany. The market for smart phones is pretty big in India. (Don't have the sales numbers at hand. But Admob metrics report shows that in the first 3 months of 2010, they served 2.8 billion requests to cellphones in India. 63.1% of them were from smart phones. This doesn't mean that 2 out of 3 cell phones in India are smart phones as folks without smart phones don't usually go online much. But it does mean that the Indian market for smart phones is bigger than the Australian market - where Admob served 656 million requests in the first quarter of 2010.)
- FraaJad 16y agoAs ankeshk pointed out, average salaries may be low, but there is no dearth of well to do people in India. Also, young people spend a lot of money on mobile phones. A fancy and suitably expensive phone and a motorbike are what is a car to an american teenager. India has unequal distribution of wealth compared to western countries. Thinking of India as a poor country is common mistake.