Verizon iPhone imminent?

[Hoista]

Most of our sales have shifted across to Asia (in terms of downloads). In terms of paying customers 2 countries rule the roost.. USA & Japan. Looking at the metrics further, the people most likely to pay are the Japanese.

Less iPhone penetration in Japan, yet we're finding in-app payment/download ratios to be higher than anywhere else by a large margin. This is likely because paying for stuff on your mobile phone is deeply embedded into the culture.

In terms of a CDMA Phone, KDDI - one of the 3 main carriers in Japan use CDMA. Currenrtly the top 3 are split - Docomo (50% of the market and clear leader) are predominantly Symbian(NOT Nokia S60, they use MOAP their own UI), Softbank use iPhone + Others, rumors are that KDDI will NOT go with iPhone and will focus on Android.

[Hoista]

I forecast a minor bump in app sales.

It's a Question of how many new users Verizon will pick up as opposed to transferring users. The most recent statistic (albeit a few months old) showed that 77% if iPhone 4 purchases in the USA were upgrades and not new users.

[LEARN2MAKE]

Originally Posted by Hoista

Most of our sales have shifted across to Asia (in terms of downloads). In terms of paying customers 2 countries rule the roost.. USA & Japan. Looking at the metrics further, the people most likely to pay are the Japanese.

Not my experience at all. Besides the US, the big countries for us are in Europe, North America and Australia.

Since by country sales are not the purpose of this thread, I started a new thread to deal with the topic of App Sales by Country and posted our paid apps sales percentages there.

Tie in to this thread is that with Verizon CDMA phones coming out, other CDMA carriers may join the iPhone party both domestic and foreign. Also, I talked to a verizon rep today and he said that the verizon phones will be CDMA and GSM capable but will only switch to GSM when CDMA network is not available and that because the phones can switch network type at any time, they won't be able to do data and voice at the same time (unless the data is wifi). Said that the phones come preloaded with a SIM and that allows them to be used more easily outside the US.

He also said he's heard good things about the next iPhone due to come out sometime this year.