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Palestine’s proposal to be presented at ‘right time’ in UN
United Nations: The Palestinian representation at the UN has included several amendments to a draft resolution announced two weeks ago and the text will be presented in the Security Council “at the right time”, official sources said.
The Palestinians, supported by the Arab group at the UN, have for months been demanding that the UN Security Council adopt a resolution to set a deadline for the withdrawal of Israel from Palestinian territories.
The US, Israel’s main ally, had already anticipated Monday’s move by the Palestinians and on the terms that were previously announced, will veto it, so it has little prospect of being approved.
The Palestinians continue to insist on the need to vote on the text in the Security Council and are confident of it being achieved before the end of the year, a possibility that appears to be increasingly more difficult.
The issue was discussed at a two-hour meeting held Monday in the UN headquarters with Arab representatives, where they discussed the amendments recommended by the Palestinians, Jordanian Ambassador Dina Kawar told journalists.
The diplomat, whose country holds a non-permanent seat in the Council, has not specified in which direction the amendments would be made, but said that they refer to the status of Jerusalem, the prisoners and water rights.
Among the applied changes, the amended proposal establishes that the negotiations should lead to a fair solution on the status of Jerusalem as the capital of two states, according to the text leaked by Arab sources.
The version released two weeks ago said that Jerusalem should be the “shared capital” between Palestinians and Israelis.
The latest amendments also require the issue of the prisoners to be solved in a fair manner, while earlier only the distribution of water was mentioned.
Kawar said that representatives of the Arab group would have private consultations to define “what is the best time to vote” on the proposal.
The draft of the proposal, which was announced Dec 17 requires Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territories before the end of 2017, something that remains in the text as amended in the last hours.
The draft proposes that within the period of one year from the approval of the proposal, there should be a peaceful solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that is “fair, lasting and complete”.
The US, which has the power to veto in the council, has already said that it was not in accordance with the initiative, according to the text that was announced two weeks ago.
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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