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Nine of 10 Korean Consumers Intend to Buy iPhones
Telecoms Korea (August 7, 2009)
http://www.telecomskorea.com/news/market/217-nine-of-10-korean-consumers-intend-to-buy-iphones

[retrogress]

You know, there's already enough lying and misleading by the advertisers, but when the news becomes one big pile of BS, it becomes really revolting.

Then when posters continue misleading (we're suppose to the line where the medias lies stop, not the messengers carrying it further) other readers it becomes even more bizarre and depressing.

There's a friggin' difference between "9 out of 10 consumers intend to buy" and "9 out of 10 consumers who are interestedin the i phone intend to buy".

I'm waiting for the day when people (including myself) realise that this whole internet, information "free ride" that we're on is just a crock of misinformation and lies. We dealt with TV (most of us still do) for 50 years before people clued in that it is a total waste of time and energy...a real sapper. Will it take another 50 years before I and you and all the others not yet convinced keep opening this and that page every morning to read lines like the above only to find out it's a complete lie?

Are you all as sick of this as I am?

Sorry to change the subject so soon.

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yeah you're slipping real reality. I only 1 story? blatantly misleading title...time to hang it up.

[stayfocused]

so he said consumers in the subject line. then he quotes where it says consumers in the market for a smartphone.

gotta get one! to pump up my apple stock.

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[stayfocused]

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[FUBAR]

Korea's smart phone market is estimated to be 300,000 phones per year or something in that range, just FYI. Not exactly a huge market....

[Goku]

1) It's a poll taken off a website for smartphones. What kind of people visit those websites? Enthusiasts. So those numbers you can assume are inflated. Your average consumer is not represented by phone junkies

2) It's a website poll of 844 hardly hard figures from a decent sample size.

3) only about 53% said willing to buy unconditionally (psychos). 39% conditionally based on price and other factors. Which really doesn't say much because I think we're all willing to buy if the price is right.

4)The poll choices are

1 Buy unconditionally
2 Buy given right circumstances
3 No interest
4 Or "watch the market situation"

Given those poll options, even on daves most of us would poll 2. Even though i think the iphone is a piece of gimmicky crap. I wouldn't select number 3 or 4. Those poll choices make no sense. Those poll choices pretty much lump anyone who has even heard of an Iphone to choose poll 2. Between,

I'd buy the latest phone if they had the right price versus I have no interest in it whatsoever

the choice is obvious. But the poll interpretation is skewed and makes the claim that these people would actually even intend to buy the phone. All those in category 2 have different price ranges and tolerance levels. I'd be willing to buy the phone if it's $100 usd could be under poll 2.

Too much to talk about, ill just leave it at those 4

[itaewonguy]

doesnt CYON already make the perfect knock off IPHONE??

why go IPHONE when CYON and SAMSUNG already have everything IPHONE has.. not to mention without restrictions on extra services...

Iphone works great in the US.. not sure how well it will work here..

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[itaewonguy]

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[victorology]

[pkang0202]