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Gave up Bajirao Mastani, Happy New Year, Sultan to give priority to Sushant: Ankita Lokhande
Bollywood actor Ankita Lokhande was recently interviewed where she revealed her life after the sudden demise of Sushant Singh Rajput, who was her ex-boyfriend. Ankita shared how fans of her and Sushant have come together and targeted her for all that she is doing in her life, be it her relationship with Vicky Jain or her dance videos. While speaking to Bollywood Bubble, Ankita Lokhande disclosed that she was the first choice of Shah Rukh Khan-Farah Khan’s Happy New Year. Ankita told the portal: “I gave up on Happy New Year, I remember Farah Khan ma m offering me the film and Shah Rukh Khan sir was like I will try to give you the best debut. And I was like Bhagwan mera na ho yaar. Mere partner ka sirf acha ho, mera na ho films mein. I was trying to be strong support for Sushant and I did it but then I realized nai yaar , mein bhi toh kuch hoon. After my breakup, I understood my value. So, it’s very important to know your own worth.”
Ankita Lokhande was also approached for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani, Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela and Salman Khan’s Sultan. But the actor rejected all the films back then. She remembered “Sanjay sir called me up for Bajirao and said, “Kar le, warna bahot pachtaigi’ and I said, “Nai sir, mujhe shaadi karni hai”. Lokhande revealed that at that time, she didn’t know to balance personal and professional life.
Ankita further talked about Sushant’s goals and how he moved on in his life. “I didn’t want to talk about my personal relationship publicly. People misunderstood me, today they come to me and say ‘you left Sushant’. How do you know that? Nobody knows about my thing. I am not blaming anyone, Sushant made his choice very clear. He wanted to go on with his career, he chose his career and moved on. But for two and a half years I was dealing with so many things,” she said. After Sushant Singh Rajput’s untimely death, Ankita Lokhande has been supporting his family. She even stood by them during the investigation and also helped the police in the interrogation process.
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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