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Thai junta defends performance one year after coup
Bangkok: Thai junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha expressed on Friday his satisfaction with the junta’s management a year after seizing power in a coup on May 22, 2014.
“I’m satisfied,” he said, adding that the serious problems afflicting the country and the government’s lax attitude towards them had left him with no option but to take charge, the Bangkok Post daily reported.
“Yet I’m not proud to be in this position. Why should I have to stand here? Why did you not solve the problems before? Weren’t you elected?” Chan-ocha said, directing the barbs at the previous administrations.
Although the junta takes pride in its performance, especially regarding security issues, it has come at the cost of dozens of arrests without charges and a tight control on freedom of expression and protest.
The military claims it carried out the coup to contain the spiraling violence in the country owing to political clashes, and to tackle corruption before holding elections, scheduled for August 2016.
Army spokesman Winthai Suvaree told Efe news agency that the situation was better than it was a year ago, the people were happier, security has improved and the streets were no longer full of demonstrators.
The current government also takes credit for having initiated ambitious infrastructure projects such as the modernisation of the railways and restarting tourism, although inflation and household debts continue to be areas of concern, according to economists.
Organisations, including Human Rights Watch (HRW), have strongly criticised authorities for arresting and trying activists in military courts, and for infringements on freedom of expression and assembly in the country.
In an editorial, the Bangkok Post on Friday cited the HRW as saying that although the army has brought stability and security to the country, it now has no option but to relax its hold on the suppression of freedom and to allow free debate if it wanted to maintain peace in the country.
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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