Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the iPhone

Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by sah2ed on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:17PM (#15012435)

> That was a surprise to me as I thought Android phones completely dominated the Chinese market.

Likely that Android does dominate the Chinese market like the rest of the world.

I think a better way to view it is to segment the mobile device market into 3: high, middle and low end; Apple dominates the high-end market segment. iPhones are still largely considered a status symbol in China.

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Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by zwily on Monday August 14, 2017 @06:55PM (#15013767)

That doesn't explain why half of Tencent's users use iPhone. Some huge % of Chinese phones must have a Tencent app installed.

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Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by seanmcdirmid on Monday August 14, 2017 @09:21PM (#15014582)

I'm sure for QQ that isn't true since those users are much more low end. WeChat maybe....but I still find it a bit of a stretch. Maybe they meant half of their revenue rather than market share?

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