John Paczkowski

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An "Apple Invasion" in Korea: Two Million iPhones Sold

Another sales milestone for the iPhone, this one in Korea. Korea Telecom today said that it has sold two million iPhones since it began offering the handset in November 2009. Of the that number, 1.03 million were iPhone 4s, and KT sold one million of them in four months. The remaining 970,000 were iPhone 3GSs. Quite an achievement considering there were only seven million smartphone users in Korea at the end of last year and the country has long been viewed as a tough market for multinational cellphone manufacturers. Or, rather, other multinational cellphone manufacturers. Because according to a KT spokesperson, the iPhone’s “proliferation rate” in Korea is high–and accelerating to the point of “Apple invasion.” That said, local cellphone manufacturers are still doing quite well. Samsung, for example, sold 2 million Galaxy S handsets in six months following its June debut.

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December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

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December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

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December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

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December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work