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Originally Posted by Graham
That only Americans can see?  |
Actually yes. Exactly what that is is not so easy to identify and quantify. But there ARE differences. For example, as MurrayPaul later wrote, outside of the USA prepaid/non-contract cellphones are far more prevalent than in the US. There is a social stigma attached to prepaid in the US that is slowly lifting...accelerated by challenging economic times.
Americans do view things differently than most of the world. For example: surely you recognize that American's view of automobiles is far different than European's view? That doesn't mean that one view is superior to the other, but simply that they're different.
The iPhone is now only starting to come to the prepaid arena (within the last 6 months) here in the US. I don't know how available a prepaid phone is elsewhere in the world. But Android phones are certainly exponentially more available on prepaid than iPhones are.
IF (I don't know if this is fact) iPhones were only available via contract in Europe, and Europeans are averse to signing on to a 2 year contract, that alone would explain the growth of Android vs. iPhone in Europe.