The answer is yes, according to Inquirer, which posted a story about how it’s been losing its “luster among Asia’s well-heeled consumers in Singapore and Hong Kong.” This is because of “changing mobile habits and its own runaway success.”
A lot of people are now iPhone users so there are those who want to be different, plus a lot of brands are coming out with competing devices.
A statistics-counting site called gs.statcounter.com reported that Apple’s share of mobile devices in Singapore went down in 2012.
The numbers in Hong Kong also went down: from 45 percent in 2011 to around 30 percent in 2012.
The thinking is that if it happens in Hong Kong and Singapore, other key markets in Asia will most probably follow.
This seems true in the Philippines. Despite the popularity of the iPhone, it can’t be ignored how popular Samsung and other Android-capable smartphones are.
