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Modi takes a dig at UPA government during Seoul visit
Seoul: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday took a dig at the previous UPA dispensation, saying that his government had initiated an ‘Act East Policy’ that had remained ‘Look East’ for a “long time”.
Addressing the Indian community in Seoul after his arrival here, Modi also said that the ‘I’ of BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – had begun teetering and almost collapsed, but under his government, India has regained its stature and importance.
He said the major highlight of his government’s foreign policy is the Act East Policy.
“Earlier, it was Look East Policy… We have seen that for a long time,” he said, tongue in cheek, amid chants of “Modi, Modi”.
He said he has witnessed how India’s neighbourhood was moving ahead at a fast pace and that earlier promising things were being said about India too.
He said that economists said the BRICS countries would soar, but have changed their tune in the past decade.
“Economists have changed their tune and began saying that the ‘I’ of BRICS is stumbling and falling… They said that BRICS was losing its importance because the ‘I’ has begun teetering (ludak gaya).”
“But in the past year things have changed and the world feels that without ‘I’ BRICS will not be possible,” he said to cheering.
Modi said all the international rating agencies like Moody’s and the World Bank have in the past two months “in one voice” said that India is the world’s fastest moving economy.
Talking on the 21st century being termed the Asian century, he said: “Earlier, we would wonder if India would figure in Asian century story. But now the way India has risen they feel that the 21st century will definitely be the Asian century.”
He said that the morose economic outlook earlier had disheartened investors and businesspersons and that many were on the verge of leaving India.
“I don’t want to criticize, but it is a fact,” he said, adding that “there is a change in mood among the people now”.
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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