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No it reflects national pride. Samsung and LG are both Korean, and I bet that 95% figure is mostly those two companies.
by rjd 15y ago
No it reflects national pride.
Samsung and LG are both Korean, and I bet that 95% figure is mostly those two companies.
- billpaetzke 15y agoThere is no official Apple retail store in South Korea--only resellers. This may be part of the reason, too.
- minikomi 15y agoHow much of an effort has Apple directed at marketing to South Koreans? In Japan, most of the marketing push came not from Apple but from the official carrier - Softbank.
- rodion_89 15y agoFor a lot of people I know, the lack of marketing on the Android front is why they switched from Softbank to AU. These friends of mine are not technically oriented so marketing plays a big factor in term of what they know about phones. On the other hand AU is really upping their game.
- minikomi 15y agoYep.. a guy in my office is helping AU get free wireless points for their users into stores (cafe's, bars etc.) for 8万 a pop.. pretty sweet little side biz.
- Pengwin 15y agoMarketing would help a lot in South Korea. Quite a few singers and musicians have even preformed songs for LG and Samsung.
- Tsagadai 15y agoI really doubt the statistics as I expressed in another post. There is an almost uncountable number of iPhone re-sellers here in Seoul. There are 6 in the street outside (within about a 100 metre range of each other). Apple is very, very popular here. I suspect the statistics are munged from website data which does not correlate to a representative population sample.
- bane 15y agoI would probably say iPhones are very popular in South Korea. Over several extended visits there, I have yet to see a Macintosh, of any sort, in the wild.
- jjm 15y agoI believe that approval of the iPhone was held up until Samsung had their Galaxy out in the market over there[1]. "Many customers who have been weighing which smartphones they should buy are turning to Samsung's Galaxy S as the release of iPhone 4 is being delayed," said John Park of Daishin Securities. Samsung said it had sold 500,000 Galaxy S phones in South Korea alone in the 33 days since it went on sale in the local market..." [1] http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8mylIu-T3ZBf6cvTnywOYkH9IEQ http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8mylIu-T...
- ZeroGravitas 15y agoThe Galaxy S was out in South Korea the same day as the iPhone launched globally (and had been launched elsewhere a couple of weeks earlier), so it's incorrect to say that the iPhone was delayed until the Galaxy S was out, though obviously any delay is still an advantage.