Countering a lazy reference with some weird racist stereotype was the best you could do?

It's not a stereotype, no one programs on phones here.

True, should have just said nonsense

Clumsily phrased. What I meant is that iPhones or similar priced smartphones are affordable and common for say middle class in countries with similar purchase power to Eastern European countries. You’d have to go to poorer countries like Vietnam or Indonesia for iPhones to be “out of reach”, given the immense value it provides.

Heck now I see even Vietnam iPhone is #1 vendor with a 28% market penetration according to statcounter. That’s more than I thought, even though I was just there…

Speaking of India, they’re at 4% there. That’s closer to being luxury.

I think US is their main market, though. The rest of the world prefers cheaper better phones and doesn't mind using WhatsApp for messaging, instead of iMessage.

As a single market, US is probably biggest. I’m seeing numbers that say that the “Americas” is a bit less than half of global revenue, and that would include Canada and all of South and Latin America. So the rest of the world is of course very important to Apple, at least financially.

> doesn't mind using WhatsApp for messaging

Well WhatsApp was super early and way ahead of any competition, and the countries where it penetrated had no reason to leave, so it’s not exactly like they settle for less. It has been a consistently great service (in the category of proprietary messaging apps), even after Zuck took over.