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B’town buzz: Struggle to stardom!
Shah Rukh Khan the biggest star of Bollywood has been among the personas who has inspired the youths who aspire for a foothold in the glamorous Town. Shah Rukh is a mega star today but can you believe that the first earning that Shah Rukh made was a meager Rs 50 when he was an accompanier in Pankaj Udhas’ ghazal concert in Delhi.
Kalki Koechlin after doing many films in the recent years also has came a long way to build up a position that is value earned. Kalki had worked as a part time Waitress in an Italian café and got 40 pounds for the four weeks she worked there. She was also studying at the London University at that time.
Randeep Hooda, now widely recognized as an intense performer on the silver screen, worked in a Chinese restaurant, Inn of Khong, in Ballarat, Australia. Randeep Hooda was paid $8 an hour for the odd jobs he did but he was happy at that time as he used to spend a lot of money for drinking beer with his income.
Irrfan Khan one of the great theatre artists of the present times got little sum of money by giving tuitions to school kids in Jaipur and used to get Rs 25 per student. Nawazuddin Siddiqui now a national award winner, had worked as a Chemist in Bhopal just to pay out the money that his mother had mortgaged her jewellery to sponsor his education and he did that by earning Rs 4000 and got his mother’s jewellery back.
Jackie Shroff made his fortune with hard work he did in the earlier phase of his career; he used to sell peanuts and did odd jobs like sticking posters and that too from a very small age when he was a kid.
The story of these stars are inspiring in many ways. It also amply shows that hard work in self belief made them what they are today.
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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