China Mobile CEO on 4G Plans: Not Going to Engage in Price War
China Mobile CEO Li Yue announced in a shareholders meeting that China Mobile will not be engaging in price war when it comes to introducing 4G network services, and aims to pilot test them in up to 10 cities. This strategic is intended to allow them to acquire a larger market share and provide better quality 4G services.According to Li Yue, China Mobile’s monthly average revenue per user (ARPU) in the first quarter fell by three percent, and will be focusing its upcoming efforts on developments in new businesses, in ...
iPhone was Japan’s Top Smartphone for 2011, But Android Still Dominant OS by Far
According to figures from MM Research, Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone was the number one smartphone in Japan for 2011 with 7.25 million units sold during the year, accounting for 30 percent of all smartphone sales in Japan. For the entire mobile market including feature phones, it was practically a three way tie. Fujitsu claimed the crown as the market leader with 17.9 percent, just edging out Apple at 17.0 percent, and Sharp at 16.7 percent.As we noted previously, Apple had a particularly strong fourth quarter accounting for the largest share ...
InMobi Sees iOS Falling in Hong Kong, Android Invading [INFOGRAPHIC]
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The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology.Mobile ad platform InMobi has been busy these past few days crunching ad impressions stats from across Asia, giving us insights into growing smartphone usage in various countries. Now it’s Hong Kong's turn, where mobile advertising grew 656 percent from Q4 2010 to the same period at the end of 2011. But the picture in Hong Kong is a bleak one for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), whose iOS presence in the Chinese SAR fell 16.1 percent; ...
Asia Pacific Overtakes Europe as Apple’s Second Largest Revenue Source
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) released its second quarter financial report this morning , revealing a 94 percent increase net profit since the same time a year before.Looking at the overall picture of Apple’s revenue breakdown, you can see that the company’s Asia Pacific revenues surpassed those of Europe for the first time (see chart below). The Asia Pacific region is now Apple’s number-two revenue generator, after the Americas.Much of the company’s profits in the region were driven by high demand for the iPhone in China, with huge queues and some rowdy behavior ...
Brand Survey Shows Economic Diversity in Asia, Affinity for Apple, Nokia
Japan’s Nikkei BP Consulting has released the result of an interesting Asia-wide brand survey today. Its "Brand Asia 2012" rankings span many industries, but has a number of insights into key trends surrounding the movers and shakers in tech in the region.The survey focused on 60 global brands, as well as 40 regional for seven of the eight countries (regional brands for China, for whatever reason, were not included) .Given the recent woes of Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK), it may come as a surprise to many that the company ranked ...
New iPad Arrives in India, South Korea, More Asian Nations This Month
According to Apple, its new iPad will launch officially in five Asian countries later this month. South Koreans will be among the first to grab one when it rolls out there this Friday (20th), while folks in India need to wait a week longer (27th). Here’s the full list of Asian arrival days for the iPad:Friday, April 20th: South Korea, Brunei, and Malaysia. Friday, April 27th: India, and Thailand.In total, 12 countries around the globe are getting official shipments of the best-selling tablet this month. No word yet on when it’ll ...
A Look at How Foxconn Manufactures Apple’s iPad [Video]
From Rob Schmitz, the man responsible for exposing the now infamous fabrications in Mike Daisey’s Foxconn trip , comes an insightful video piece showing highlights from the Foxconn (LSE:HHPD; HKEX:2038; TPE:2354) facilities, including the iPad on the assembly line. You can check out the clip below.There’s a detailed report as well from last week in which Rob notes his impressions from visiting the factory in Shenzhen.fter you enter the gates and walk around, you quickly realize that it’s also a city – 240,000 people work here. Nearly 50,000 of ...
Gray Market iPhone Taobao Vendors Suddenly ‘On Vacation,’ Rumor Has MIIT Involved
Even though the iPhone 4S has been officially released in China, the gray market for Apple's pretty talking rectangle is alive and well. Suddenly, though, there are signs that China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (which may be having its busiest week ever) may be stepping in to take a bite out of the online gray market in iPhones. Several major mobile phone shops on Taobao have suddenly posted "Vacation" notices and stopped selling anything.Specifically, popular shops like Very Mobile, Lanyou, Huayou Digital, Zhongyuan, and International Mobile have ...
Apple Seems to Have Tweaked App Store Ranking Algorithm, Many Chinese Apps Plunge
A report from a Chinese news site suggests that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has adjusted its ranking rules and algorithm for the iTunes App Store in an apparent bid to punish developers who use third-party services to manipulate their apps’ rankings. Apple first tweaked its system last April , making sheer download volume less of a factor in an app’s standing in the store.Looking only at Chinese-made apps, it can be seen that there have indeed been some major shifts this week. The changes have occurred between March 21st and March 26th, ...
Seemingly Weak iPad Sales Have Foxconn Workers Complaining
We knew the new iPad was meeting a less-excited-than-usual market in China, but are sales of the device flagging across the globe? Certainly Apple's sales numbers for the new iPad's opening weekend don't seem to indicate a sales slump, but according to the China Business News, sales are definitely down somewhere because something strange is happening to Foxconn workers on the iPad line: they're getting time off. Lots of it.For instance, one iPad-line worker named Wang in Foxconn's Shenzhen plant told the paper that so far in March, he had ...
Hey Apple, Here Are Some Possible Add-ons For iPhones in China
We recently learned that Baidu, the popular search engine in China, is rumored to be integrating into Apple’s iOS. So rather than setting Google as the default search service, Chinese iOS users will be able to set Baidu as the default — if the rumor proves true. I trust many Chinese Apple users would be excited about this news.It’s pretty remarkable to see how Apple, an American company, is trying to fit into China. For mobile, it started with the introduction of a Chinese version of its iTunes app store, ...
25 Billionth App Download Girl Flown to Beijing, Collects $10,000 iTunes Card
Earlier this month we told you about Fu Chunli, the lucky girl from Qingdao, China who downloaded Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) 25 billionth app, winning a $10,000 iTunes gift card in the process. Last week, Apple reportedly flew her all the way to Beijing to collect her prize, a nice gesture considering they might have just emailed her an iTunes code instead.What does a $10,000 iTunes gift card look like? Well if you get really close to your screen and squint a little bit, you can see that Apple has left a ...
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