[contracertainty]

This is an incredibly silicon valley centered viewpoint. I'm sure the guy makes some good observations, but how can you take anyone seriously that starts with a comment like this? Apple is insignificant outside of the English speaking first world: North America, UK, Aus/NZ. I wish some of these people from those markets would get outside their bubble from time to time. There's a huge market out there that has never used nor wanted an iPhone or any other Apple product.

Not that they are bad, they just aren't all that special.

[trimbo]

> Apple is insignificant outside of the English speaking first world

Japan has a higher share of iOS than the US or UK. Also China is ~20% iOS. Sounds small until you realize that percentage equates to more iOS devices than the US.

[andix]

Also Switzerland or Sweden have a lot of Apple users. All those countries have one thing in common: everything is very expensive there. So people have a lot of money and they can easily afford Apple products.

In Argentina for example an iPhone is around 2500 USD (100% import tax), an average citizen needs to save for a year to afford an iPhone.

[Izikiel43]

A year?

A couple of years maybe, and you won't be getting the latest gen one.

[andix]

An average Argentinian office worker should be able to put 2500$ per year aside. If he doesn't need a new washing machine or new furniture, he could get an iPhone. But he would need to spend all his savings just for one thing.

[kumarvvr]

iOS is different from Mac right? There are a lot more phones than Macs in China I believe.

[trimbo]

Grandparent post was speaking about Apple generally: "There's a huge market out there that has never used nor wanted an iPhone or any other Apple product."

[kumarvvr]

Yup. The starting price of an apple computer in India is almost 10 times the median salary of a young worker / executive.

You will not fine Macs in India, except in the 1%, or in movies.

I am sure that is true for most of South Asia.

It's Windows all the way down. There is a huge black market for pirated windows copies here and a decade back, the standard PC setup was a basic Intel based system, loaded with pirated windows os on a cd that costs about 2 USD.

[titanomachy]

I don't think you're using the word "executive" in the way that I usually understand it.

[pie420]

You realize the 1% of India is 15 million people, right?

[jurip]

Thompson lives in Taiwan, I believe.