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Not quite 40 percent of the market. According to [1], where there are 6.4 billion people and 2.7 billion smartphone users in the top 50 countries, Chinese repre
by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
Not quite 40 percent of the market. According to [1], where there are 6.4 billion people and 2.7 billion smartphone users in the top 50 countries, Chinese represent 29% of smartphone owners. In the very long term, assuming use in every country stabilizes at 80% of the population, they're looking at 22%.
I think the more interesting metric to watch is India. With 27% of their population in 2018 owning a smartphone (compared to 55% in China and ~80% in more wealthy Western nations like the US) they're likely to demonstrate meteoric rise in the next few years while Chinese adoption tapers off asymptotically towards the limit. The current 13% representation will rise towards 21%, causing the effective market share of Chinese smartphone owners to drop towards 22%.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_smartphone_penetration#2018_rankings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_smartphon...