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I was recently in Korea and surprised to see how many iPhones there were in the Republic of Samsung. My last time there was right before Covid in 2019, where i
by decafninja 3y ago
I was recently in Korea and surprised to see how many iPhones there were in the Republic of Samsung.
My last time there was right before Covid in 2019, where iPhones were somewhat of a rarity. Samsung Galaxies ruled everywhere.
Now, everywhere I went I saw iPhones in Seoul, especially younger people. Android phones (including Samsung) seem to be mostly in the hands of older people.
- rchaud 3y agoWhy wouldn't there be? It's a status symbol there, same way in which an entry-level BMW stateside would be a status symbol over a Ford or GM car.
- dagmx 3y agoIntuition would say the local brand(s) would always have a home town advantage. LG pulled out of the phone market a while ago, but that Samsung doesn’t even have the majority of use among the youth in its home playing field is surprising, to me at least.
- dagmx 3y agohttps://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-iphones-are-winning-over-gen-zand-the-worlds-premium-market-7611bd38 https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-iphones-are-winning-over... > Around 52% of people age 18 to 29 in South Korea were using an Apple smartphone as of 2022, up from 44% two years earlier, according to polls by Gallup Korea.