https://www.pingdom.com/blog/what-if-smartphones-were-as-popular-in-china-as-they-are-in-the-usa/ Website Performance and Availability Monitoring | Pingdom Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:01:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://www.pingdom.com/blog/what-if-smartphones-were-as-popular-in-china-as-they-are-in-the-usa/#comment-2450 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:01:26 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=11796#comment-2450 It’s not that smartphones aren’t popular in those markets. Rather, those countries are still developing economically and thus has a smaller and less affluent middle class. I live in a third world country and the iPhone 4S costs almost as much as my monthly salary. Even under contract, it will be prohibitively expensive.

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