Why is THIS the Best Selling Phone?

This is the

best

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selling

Android

phone

in the world, it's an even bigger business than you think. If you look at the annual smart

phone

sales charts, basically every year you will see exactly the same trend, the entire top 10 is basically iPhone, iPhone, but then a Galaxy series, what specifically the Galaxy A10 series and then a little bit later , the Galaxy a0 series and while obviously one of the main takeaways from

this

list is that Apple sells a lot of iPhones in some ways, Samsung's achievement is even more surprising because remember that Apple only makes four models a year, Samsung makes around 50.

They have S models, M models, Z models, so for just one of those 50 models to be in fourth place and sell 30 million units on its own is absolutely astronomical, but at first glance, it doesn't really have any It makes sense for Samsung to hold massive launch events for its flagship phones, filling vast spaces with reporters from all corners of the world, but

this

Galaxy A14 doesn't even have a launch event or a trailer in the west, you can only find videos of quick summary on samsung pages in malaysia or thailand and yes, sure some of them have pretty impressive view counts but all you have to do is look at the comments to realize that none of this is organic reach and No one really cares about them, so why are these A series phones by far Samsung's

best

sellers, specifically basically this A10 series?

And just before we get into it, we'll start a battery test of the Samsung A14 vs the iPhone 14. So, the first most obvious thing that makes this so popular is the price of this A14, which is around 150 in total, including the delivers, and that's actually pretty impressive considering what you get: a 6.6-inch 1080p display, the latest 50-megapixel main camera running Android 13, a massive 5000 milliamp-hour battery, and yes, sure, some thick edges and nice around the outside of the screen, but enough fundamentals that when I handed this phone to my fiancé and asked him how much he thought it was, he said 400 and that was only when I started setting up the phone. above, I correctly realized how they came to this price.

I kid you not, when I first launched it, I was assaulted by recommended apps. There were three separate pages of supposedly free gifts that the phone wanted to install and asked me my gender. or my age to try to guide its recommendations and even went so far as to mark yes to half of the applications by default. Samsung will obviously be charging all of these app companies to appear on these pages, probably taking extra money to make the app something chosen by default, which is great for them because it takes the pressure off of having to make money off of the hardware on them. yeah and it's a pretty standard trick for cheaper phones like this, but it's a bit crazy that they're allowed to just cover themselves very clearly. sponsored apps by literally describing them as if they are essential to the user, but there's an even more subtle way Samsung can keep this phone so cheap when you first look at it, it looks like it's running Samsung's only user interface.

The skin is the same one that the Galaxy S series flagship phones use, but look a little closer when you see that this is not the same UI5 ​​that the s23 ultra uses, this is a UI core 5. Which is a good thing. way of saying we eliminated it. We take all the good out of having features that we don't think are completely necessary and make it clear and this saves you even more money. It means that every time there is a software update, for example, the company only has about a third of the functions that they need to manually review and modify all those updates and also because it is so simple, there are fewer things that can go wrong, which helps minimize the amount of time Samsung spends repairing these cheap phones and no matter how irritating it all is.

It's what allowed Samsung to reach this price of 150 and naturally the more affordable the phone the more it will sell, but there are a lot of cheap phones on the market so it still doesn't fully explain why this good design is priced surprisingly big. An important role to play is when you choose the design of your phone, the decision is not only how to make each device look as good as possible, the design is also the most important factor that determines how people perceive where that model sits. inside your phone. line and there are two different ways you can go here.

One route is Apple's route, where their more affordable phones are very clearly differentiated in design from their flagship phones. I mean, Apple is absolutely making sure that no one looking at the iPhone 14 pro Max for example is even going to consider buying the iPhone SE 400, they've designed them to feel like unparalleled experiences and that if you want the best you have to pay for the best, which is why they only use matte finishes on their Pro models. It doesn't cost them any more to do it, and in fact, they could sell more phones in total if they use these elegant matte finishes on each of their phones, but they don't want less. people buy their higher-end models, but Samsung does the opposite.

The whole appeal of this series of phones is literally like the S series on a budget. They match their cheaper phones very closely to their more expensive ones in terms of design language. They make sure to have multiple cameras. Like the Series S, they make sure that even the cheapest phones have a nice matte textured case and this makes their entire line a very smooth sliding scale where every price increase from 30 to 50 there is a new option with slightly better features and this type of structure. It means that most people will tend to start reaching for their phone somewhere around the mid-range and then just scale up or down from there depending on what they decide they need and, more importantly for this video, does That their entry-level phones are like the A14 feels like the best value - Samsung is effectively spending some of the brand power and reputation they've earned from having some really high-end phones to shift more units of their inferior babies, but the A14 is not actually the lowest-end phone.

Samsung makes the way this series works is that you have two numbers, the first is the level of phone we are on and the second is the generation we are on, really stay away from my Crocs for example the phone from last year with the same price. A level like this like the Galaxy a13 and a sub to the channel would be a labyrinth, but Samsung also has a zero tip, but no one wants to have the worst phone, it is actually a very well documented phenomenon that people when it comes to any stuff. They are afraid of being the extreme option They always like to sit somewhere in the middle There is a sense of comfort that comes from knowing that there are people above you who in this case have taken a bigger risk by spending more money and also below you If you have the most basic feature set, it means that as long as you are between those two extremes, you are in some sense protected from risk.

So if you ask someone to choose a number between two numbers, they will give you a lot of answers. they're more likely to choose something in the middle of those two numbers rather than the extremes. That's why almost every website offers the option that they actually want you to buy in the middle. That's why, in a row of four bathroom stalls, people have twice as many people. You're likely to use the middle two. Remember that if you want to clean up poop next time, choose a letter from the alphabet from A to Z. L. If you had four bathroom stalls directly mixed together, which one would you use?

The second, being the even point. Although it's still on the lower end in the big picture, I think these a12, a13 and A14 phones being just one notch above the lowest end makes them feel like a sweet spot for most people, so The phone is a great value, it looks like a The most expensive phone is positioned in that sweet spot, but still, with 30 million units each year, it dwarfs all other Android phones and to do so, it needs a few other things too, The first is the availability of the vast majority of charging for mid-range Android phones.

They have quite limited availability, either they will be released only in China or only in India or perhaps in some carefully selected European countries, and there is a reason for that, when you branch out around the world, you start to rack up serious shipments. costs, you have to work with all kinds of local operators, you have to add different antennas to work with local signal bands, you have to make deals with local retailers who will then proceed to take their own cut and so on because anyway, the margins of Profits tend to be so small on these phones that they are often only worth

selling

in the countries where they are manufactured, but these phones in a series are basically everywhere Samsung uses distribution channels and brand image. that have.

We have already prepared for their premium flagship phones to obtain a number of Prime positions in stores throughout Europe, North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, indeed, all over the world, but it is not just that they are present in all parts, but are also marketed in a way that seeks the broadest possible appeal in these markets, like taking a look at Samsung's s23 Ultra website listing for a second, it goes section by section and intricately describes the process of Thought behind each and every feature, eco-consciousness, choice of materials, and even the specific processor used, this list is designed for someone who is interested in technology and wants to know more about everything the phone is capable of doing, but the tone is completely different here and yes, part of it is simply the fact that there is naturally less of it. to talk about a cheap phone, but look at the supposed selling points, like one of them just says 6.6 inch screen, not refresh rate, not what technology or resolution, given that it is a 1080p panel , actually I would say it would be something to brag about.

For this price, just the size of its 50 megapixel camera, which as we know basically means nothing when it comes to the final image output and let's be very clear, 50 megapixel here is very different than the 50 megapixel camera you can see on high-end phones. Still, the results are decent thanks to the good software processing, but at this level, the phone having 50 megapixel capacity does not make sense, but they go further because the next point is simply the fact that it has an octa-core processor. core as if it were a phone from literally 10 years ago. It didn't have eight core chips yet, the entire list here is designed for someone who doesn't really care that much about their phone or someone who isn't all that aware, which it pains me to say is the vast majority of people on this planet , so the very fact that you're watching this means we're in the minority.

Remember that this isn't necessarily because people don't want to know, although it's just that large parts of the world are still quite technologically illiterate. For a long time I had access to the Internet as a means to learn about technology or the need to learn about technology, so this type of broad and simple marketing also appeals to that type of user. That's why the only A10 series advancements we saw were focused on development in newly industrialized countries that have recently begun increasing their income and technological proliferation. Samsung also sells the A14 here in the UK, but notice how they haven't released the A14 teaser here because they know people in the UK on average.

They have higher incomes and more technological knowledge, so they would prefer us to buy the flagship Series S, but there is another thing you have to do if you want to become the most attractive: you have to exclude as few people as possible. to make a phone that can fit as many different lifestyles as possible and this makes it have a Micro SD card slot so anyone who wants more storage can add it for cheap, it has a headphone jack so assuming that Don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on expensive wireless headphones, you can still listen to music using the headphones you already have.

This thing has incredible battery life, actually longer than almost any flagship phone, which means for people who do more manual, non-office work and with less access. By turning it on throughout the day you are assured that it will not drain and I guess to prove that point I have been running a continuous benchmark test on both phones for the last few hours and while you can obviously see that the maximum amount of power of the iPhone 14 is far ahead of this phone, the battery differenceit's as big as, for example, this iPhone here is at 57 percent and Samsung's is at 80.

But there's a more subtle way Samsung can keep this phone going. so cheap notice, this is the opposite of what companies do with their high-end phones. Companies know very well that if you are going to buy a flagship, you will have even more extra money, so let's remove the headphone jack and sell you headphones. let's remove expandable storage and sell you a storage upgrade for 200 oh let's add wireless charging so you can buy our flagship wireless chargers intentionally remove most of the market to gain more than the 10 people who have a lot for example if you so choose To buy a case for the A14 you have many fewer options than for the s23 ultra because Samsung, no person who spends 150 on their phone will not have a lot of fun complementing it, but the most surprising thing is that the options they have are actually cheaper than the same cases for more expensive phones, why should it be like that?

Does this case cost less than this case? Not really or like from Samsung, for this phone you can buy a screen protector, but for the flagship you can only buy. in packs of two, they are the ones who know that you bought a flagship and therefore know what that means about your willingness to spend and, yes, here, at 150, ironically, you really need to spend less on extras so that This works, there is also a drawback with these cheaper phones in general, an invisible warning that results in more units of this type being sold. Budget phones aren't designed with longevity in mind, so you know how for flagships.

The average person upgrades about once every three years. I was talking to a couple of people from the xiaomi team in India not long ago and they told me that only recently has the refresh cycle for smartphones at this price managed to reach once every six months, they said. That true tech enthusiasts in any family would buy the latest Xiaomi phone and then when the next Xiaomi launch happened, they would buy that one and simply pass on the existing phone they have been using to another family member. This is why companies that cater to these prices often launch a phone and then upgrade to that phone within the same year.

This would never happen in the US market and what this change also means is that you get less software support and it's not just that you get fewer features. A rich, less optimized core UI software, but also Samsung has earned a pretty solid reputation for its four-year warranty of updates on its phones, yeah, well that doesn't really apply to this, you only get two here and this is the icing on the cake. the pie to keep those sales numbers up and because there's less price friction at the lower end of the market because you've invested less in your current phone and will spend less to upgrade to the next one, it feels like a smaller task.

It's a waste to keep updating and these are images of the most popular Android smartphone in the world. Now, a statistic that really surprised me recently, even more than the ridiculous number of units this thing sells, is the number of data breaches that increase every year. get data brokers who make a living collecting data, often stolen, from everyone who logged into these websites, names, Social Security numbers, locations, everything on this date is then sold to companies and often, can fall into the hands of criminals. Fun fact, a single giant data league. I recently managed to disclose 1.2 billion people's records.

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