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illuminati1911

"to be released exclusively in China."

Why?

"The decision by HMD to launch its first Android smartphone into China is a reflection of the desire to meet the real world needs of consumers in different markets around the world." http://www.hmdglobal.com/press/2017-01-08-nokia-6/

"[...]With over 552 million smartphone users in China in 2016, a figure that is predicted to grow to more than 593 million users by 2017, it is a strategically important market where premium design and quality is highly valued by consumers."

I would honestly consider India also a strategically important market which is bound to grow quickly...

And so Samsung releases their Tizen-based phones in India.

The market in the US is full of broken incentives due to the sales model there, and a lot of the rest of the world seems to be sold whatever works in the US, so inherits the results of the broken market. There's only a few countries which are large enough to have special effort put in.

Biggest market in the world, who didn't love iPhone that much.

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