Smartphones and "iPhones" and Kleenex - MOSK: 03.21.2023

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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- Counterpoint: Premium Smartphones Owned 2022 (and Apple Owned Premium Smartphones) - Report: Apple Pay Goes Live in South Korea - Etymology and Kremlinology: Russia Tells Government Officials to Ditch iPhones/Smartphones - Apple and Hello Sunshine Nab Rights to Novel “Maybe Next Time” - For Sale: 10-Year Apple Plaque Signed by Steve Jobs - Looking for The Mac Observer's Daily Observations Podcast? Put this link in your podcatcher of choice: https://www.macobserver.com/rss/dailyobservations_mp3.xml - Power what we do next for as little as $1 a month. Join the Mac OS Ken Test Kitchen at Patreon at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: [email protected] or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:09.0	Crazy numbers from Counterpoint Research.
0:11.8	South Korea is open for Apple Pay, and the Kremlin has it in for
0:16.3	iPhone. It is Tuesday, the 21st of March, 2023. I'm Ken Ray, this is news from Mecca West can brought to you by yours truly and
0:29.8	supported by people like you patrons through Patreon.
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0:40.0	dot com slash Macoess can.
0:45.0	Two crazy data points from Counterpoint Research.
0:49.0	Number one, sales of premium smartphones,
0:52.0	that's smartphones that cost $600 or more, made up more than half of
0:57.9	global smartphone revenue in 2022. Crazy point number two, Apple's share of the global premium
1:06.3	smartphone market in 2022 was 75%. On the first point, counterpoint says premium smartphone sales climbed 1% in
1:16.8	22 those smartphones as a whole dropped 12% sounds like a total halves and have nots thing.
1:26.0	Quoting counterpoint,
1:27.0	despite the top market conditions in 2022,
1:30.0	affluent consumers were more immune to the macroeconomic difficulties than customers from the lower end.
1:37.0	Consequently, sales in the premium market grew, while those in the entry and mid-tier segments declined.
1:45.0	In fairness, that's only part of the equation, though.
1:48.0	Counterpoint argues that more buyers who can
1:51.0	are willing to spend more on premium models.
1:55.0	That's partly due to the more central role smartphones play in people's lives
1:59.0	and partly due to knowing they can hold on to premium phones for a longer stretch. The way the firm sees it, that
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