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New US defence chief praised for deepening defence ties with India
Washington: Ashton Carter has taken over as President Barack Obama’s fourth defence secretary in six years with Vice President Joe Biden praising him for implementing the Asia-Pacific rebalance, including deepening defence cooperation with India.
Carter, 60, a former deputy defence secretary replaced Chuck Hagel, the lone Republican in the Obama cabinet who resigned last November under pressure. He was sworn in by Biden as the 25th US defence secretary in a ceremony at the White House Monday.
Calling Carter a “physicist and a genuine expert on the acquisition and technical capabilities that are going to help guarantee the US military is second to none in the world,” Biden described him as “a driving intellectual force” behind what the administration has been doing.
These included strengthening America’s cyber capabilities, improving the way the Pentagon does business, and implementing the Asia-Pacific rebalance, including deepening defence cooperation with India, he said.
Later after meeting carter in the Oval Office, Obama said “he is hitting the ground running, having already spent a lot of time in this administration and in the Pentagon.”
They had, he said, “talked about a wide range of security challenges and opportunities that we face around the world” and how “we maintain the strongest and most effective military in the world.”
Calling the defence of the nation as “the highest calling,” Carter made three commitments-to “help our president make the best possible decisions about our security”, deciding about sending troops “into harm’s way with the greatest reflection and care” and “bilding a force for our future.”
During his confirmation hearing earlier this month Carter had vowed to prioritise the steady growth of India-US strategic partnership.
“We are seeing greater convergence in our interests and concerns than ever before, particularly between our rebalance to Asia and India’s ‘Act East,'” he then told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“Strengthening the US-India defence relationship was a priority for me as Deputy Secretary of Defence and, if confirmed, I will continue to prioritise the steady growth of this relationship,” he said.
Carter, who as Pentagon No. 2 launched the Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) with India, had also pledged to lean-forward to expand DTTI with additional co-production and co-development activities.
During his recent India trip, he noted Obama announced four pathfinder projects under DTTI, a working group on aircraft carrier cooperation, and the possibility of cooperating on jet engine technology.
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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