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‘Bigg Boss’ was a nightmare, says Nigaar
Mumbai: Actress Nigaar Z. Khan is relieved upon her eviction from “Bigg Boss 8” as she felt the reality show was nothing less than a nightmare for her.
She was voted out of the show in only two weeks of her stay Sunday night, and Nigaar says she couldn’t be happier.
“It was one of the worst experiences of my life. I’m so glad to be out of there. Every moment in there was a living nightmare,” she said.
Nigaar couldn’t believe the level of negativity inside the ‘house’, where celebrities from different walks of life are made to stay under constant surveillance of multiple cameras.
“All the contestants seem to be in there to wallow in muck. It is said that a lotus blossoms in muck. But sorry, I’d rather not be in that situation. God has other far healthier plans for me,” said the actress, whose sister Gauahar won the last season of the show.
Nigaar’s tirade continues.
“It’s almost as if the people in there enjoy the bitterness. I’m used to an atmosphere of positivity. To be honest, I am glad I was voted out. I couldn’t have survived in there for much longer,” she said.
Like many other evicted contestants, Nigaar has come out fuming against .
“He’s a completely negative force. He brings out the worst in everyone. When I was leaving the show, I was shown footage where he was bad-mouthing me. Since Salman (show’s host Salman Khan) and Puneet are friends, Salman must have shocked Puneet Issar by standing up for me and reprimanding Puneet,” she said.
Nigaar scoffs at Puneet’s double-faced attitude.
“You should be man enough to say what you have to in front of me. In fact, one of the things that went against me was my honestly. I was determined to stay true to myself. So what if I had to pay a price for it? Puneet keeps saying ‘God Bless’ to everyone when he actually means, ‘Go to hell’.”
Nigaar feels the contestants were against her from the start.
“I was a wild card entry and they felt I was barging in. I was uncomfortable from the word go,” she said.
She has come away with fond feelings for two contestants.
“Upen Patel is a gem of a guy. He’s all heart, no cunning. And though I didn’t get much time with Aarya Babbar, he too is a beautiful person. I’d like meet up with them at some point later. As for the other contestants, never again!”
The same goes for “Bigg Boss”.
“This experience has taught me to value what I have. My family and my friends mean the world to me. I have a beautiful life. I’d want to hold on to it,” she said.
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
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Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
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Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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