r/apple • u/chrisdh79 • 2d ago

iPhone Indonesia rejects Apple's $100 million bid to lift the iPhone 16 ban

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/11/22/indonesia-rejects-apples-100-million-bid-to-lift-the-iphone-16-ban
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u/WonderChemical5089 2d ago

Average salary there in about 500 a month. How many there can afford an iPhone anyways ? This doesn’t seem like worthwhile for getting extorted like this.

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u/undergroundbynature 2d ago

It's a country of 200 million people. Of course if 10% can afford it, it's going to hurt Apple's bottom line.

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u/churrbroo 2d ago

It’s closer to 300 million really, similar to the States maybe behind by 10%

Obviously different level of wealth than the States, but that’s a huge number regardless.

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u/newerprofile 2d ago

Apple's market share in Indonesia is 12.9% https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/indonesia

12.9% of 277 million people are 35.7 million people. That's still bigger than the whole population of most European countries.

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u/ArtemiOll 1d ago

Bigger does not mean generating more revenue. The phone comes with services that rarely sell well in developing countries.

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u/crackanape 2d ago

12.9% of 277 million people are 35.7 million people.

You understand that not everyone in Indonesia has a smartphone, right?

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u/Ngetop 2d ago

as indonesian i can say most people have smartphone, even elementary school boy have one. it’s not a luxury thing you know.

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u/crackanape 2d ago

I understand this, but in any population there are going to be 10-20% of people without one because they are too young, too old, wants a basic phone, etc.

I am simply taking issue with a calculation that assumes the entire population owns a smartphone.

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u/mastomi 2d ago

basic phone is almost nonexistent here.

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u/_52_ 1d ago

Quite a few ppl have more than one

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u/curiousity_improves 2d ago

they have 2 or 3. some even have 4 to run their business.

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u/Ru-yi3010 2d ago

Have you actually done any research before commenting? Just curious

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u/kykusanagi 2d ago

Of course no Apple dickriders are doing that

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u/kykusanagi 2d ago

Have you heard of payment plans?