In a survey conducted in 2023 in India, more than 76.2 percent of the respondents stated that they had one laptop in their household. It was followed by 15.8 percent of the respondents having two laptops in their household. From the same survey, HP and Dell had a share of more than 55 percent of India's laptop market.

In 2019, around 23 percent of households in urban India had access to computers for distance learning. On the other hand, only four percent of households in rural India had access to computers. Overall, around 11 percent of households in India had access to computers during the same time period.

In a survey conducted in 2023 in India, close to one third of the respondents stated that they owned a HP laptop. It was followed by Dell with 23.1 percent of the respondents. Together, HP and Dell had a market share of more than 55 percent of India's laptop market.

In a survey conducted in 2023 in India, around 21 percent of respondents between the age of 35 to 44 were using Lenovo laptops. It was followed by 17.5 percent of respondents above 44 years old. From the same survey, HP and Dell had a share of more than 55 percent of the Indian laptop market.

As per Cognitive Market Research's latest published report, the Global Daily Fantasy Sports market size was USD 5,992.74 Million in 2017 and it is forecasted to reach USD 14,875.92 Million by 2029. Daily Fantasy Sports Industry's Compound Annual Growth Rate will be 8.95% from 2023 to 2030.

The North America Daily Fantasy Sports market size will be USD 5,022.11 Million by 2029.

Market Drivers For Daily Fantasy Sports

Growing adoption of smartphones coupled with rising internet connectivity

Over the last few years, there is a rapid increase in smart device adoption and internet penetration. Smart devices offer flexibility to customers on a smartphone, laptop, desktop, or tablet. With these devices, users are simply able to access several daily fantasy sports apps and websites.

According to a study, the number of unique mobile internet users in 2020 was 4.28 billion, and more than 90% of the worldwide internet population has access to the internet through a mobile device. Until March 2021, the internet penetration rate in Asia was at 62%, 88% in Europe, and 90% in North America.

Similarly, according to the study, the current global smartphone user population is 6.648 billion, which indicates that 83.72 percent of the world’s population possesses a smartphone. This statistic has increased significantly from 2016, when there were just 3.668 billion users, accounting for 49.40 percent of the world’s population at the time.

Furthermore, the usage of tablets, laptops, and desktops is also raising. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, desktop or laptop computers are used by 91% of connected households.

As technology advances, various organizations are releasing numerous daily fantasy games that can play online. This enables several people to entertain themselves as well as to earn money. In this app or website, users can play a wide range of fantasy games, including cricket, hockey, football, basketball, and kabaddi. This promotes market expansion.

According to data shared by Indian Super League (ISL) its fantasy football players hail from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and the UK, with 86% of the traffic coming from mobile phones. As a result, the growing adoption of smart devices coupled with rising internet connectivity drives the growth of the daily fantasy sports market.

Rising number of daily fantasy sports players

As online gaming and associated activities gain traction, the online fantasy sports market is expected to see a considerable increase in income. The popularity of fantasy games has surged with the introduction of various applications and websites. Daily fantasy games, in particular, are gaining popularity, and many individuals are drawn to them. This increases the popularity of daily fantasy sports.

Daily fantasy games are a popular type of online fantasy gaming in which users pay an entrance fee to compete for cash rewards based on the performance of professional athletes whom users choose and then track in their respective professional sports events.

People are drawn to daily fantasy games for a variety of reasons. The primary reason for this is that players can win real money. According to data, one-third (34%) of urban Indians have played online fantasy sports for money in June 2021. There is real money on the line, and anybody has a chance to win. Some players even make a full-time career by joining competitions. It's difficult to say how much profit the top fantasy sports players make, but there's evidence that they might be earning at least $10,000 every week.

As a result, many players want to participate in daily fantasy games. According to the Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association, approximately 59 million individuals in the United States and Canada participate in fantasy sports. It also claims that 20 million individuals in India play fantasy games, with the amount expected to rise to 150 million by 2022. According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, the number of fantasy sports participants has increased from 500,000 in 1988 to 59.3 million in 2017, with the business being worth $7.22 billion (FSTA).

Similarly, key players are participating in a variety of measures to increase player numbers. For instance, to increase its appeal to women, Disney introduced a fantasy

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In 2020, the most positively reviewed laptop brand in India was Honor, with 76 percent. This was followed by Apple and MSI. That year, Asus, HP and Lenovo contributed to more than 60 percent of all online laptop user reviews. The overall positive rate was around 57 percent. Honor is a Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer, it used to be part of Huawei, but became an independent brand in 2020.

In a survey conducted in 2023 in India, more than three-quarters of the respondents said that their laptop was purchased with less than 50 thousand Indian rupees. Only 2.8 percent of the respondents had purchased a laptop with more than 100 thousand rupees. From the same survey, HP and Dell had a share of more than 55 percent of the Indian laptop market.

In 2021, the average price for new laptops launched in India reached 61,031 Indian rupees, the highest since 2016. It was a nearly 50 percent increase from 2016. The average price saw a general growth trend during the presented period. The leading laptop brands in that market were Asus, HP, Lenovo and Acer.

In a survey conducted in 2023 in India, around 4.5 percent of respondents between the age of 18 to 24 were using Apple laptops. It was followed by 3.7 percent of respondents below 18 years old. From the same survey, HP and Dell had a share of more than 55 percent of the Indian laptop market.

In 2024, HP Inc. shipped around 4.3 million units of personal computers in India, with a slight decrease from the previous year of around three percent. The total shipments saw a visible decrease from 2022 of 6.6 percent. India’s PC and its segment market Digitalization across various industries in India has increased the demand for electronic products such as computers, laptops, desktops, notebooks, and workstations among Indian consumers. The ownership of computers in Indian households was expected to experience enormous growth between 2025 and 2029, increasing from 37 million to 40.7 million. The revenue of the desktop PCs market was predicted to increase steadily and reach around 2.2 billion U.S. dollars by 2028 in India. Electronics market in India The Make in India campaign aims to expand and transform the manufacturing sector across India. With government support and private initiatives, the Indian electronics industry experienced a jump in the domestic production and consumption of electronics, with the sector expected to grow considerably by 2026. In 2023, the consumption value of electronics across the country was estimated to be around 8.7 trillion Indian rupees. In the same year, the domestic production of electronics contributed close to three percent towards the GDP of India.

In the third quarter of 2024, HP held the biggest market share of around 29 percent of PC unit shipments in India. India's traditional PC market includes desktops, laptops, and workstations, and the shipments have been increasing during the last three quarters. Hewlett-Packard (HP) Inc. Hewlett-Packard, an American information technology multinational company, manufactures software and hardware. HP Inc. had been generating high revenue from its computer division and related technologies across the world, with the majority of revenue generated from the PC segment, amounting to more than 36 billion U.S. dollars in 2024. In the same year, HP Inc. employed nearly 58 thousand employees worldwide. Personal computer (PC) shipments Lenovo, Asus, Dell, HP Inc. are some of the leading personal computer (PC) vendors across the globe. Since 2018, Lenovo has outperformed its rivals in terms of PC shipments across the world. In 2023, Lenovo shipped the highest number of PC units, which amounted to approximately 59.7 million units. PC shipments in India were quite the contrary. HP Inc. dominated in terms of PC shipments with nearly 4.4 million PCs shipped in 2023. Lenovo ranked second with over 2.3 million PC unit shipments.

The graph shows the average number of hours spent using media among consumers in India as of May 2014. The source found that respondents in India spent on average 6.4 hours (384 minutes) per week accessing pirated TV shows and movies streamed or downloaded from the internet in the measured period.

Video content consumption in India – additional information Studies show that consumers in India spend most of their media time with video content and the majority of that time is devoted to all sorts of digital video. In the Southeast Asia region, India ranked third in regards to the share of consumers who access TV or movie content online. On a monthly basis, Indian viewers between the ages of 25 to 34 years watched an average of 62.8 online videos per viewer. It was found that respondents in the country spent on average nearly 10 hours a week with online TV and 6 hours accessing legal internet sources of movies and TV programs in 2014.

Even though in the first quarter of 2014 video-on-demand services in India were believed to reach 21 percent of the population, as opposed to 46 percent in the United States, the Indian market is a very potent one judging by the frequency of viewing video-on-demand. Of those consumers with access to VoD services, 52 percent claim to watch it daily, 21 percent say they view content from VoD providers a few times each week and 17 percent - every other day.

When it comes to the type of devices used by consumers in India to access video-on-demand, the most common choice was a computer, with 87 percent of respondents citing laptops or desktops as their favorite device to watch VoD. TV screen ranked second and mobile phone followed, with 46 percent of Indian consumers accessing on-demand content via this device. And while the majority of respondents identify their own home as a preferred location for viewing video-on-demand, approximately one quarter likes to watch it while travelling or while commuting.

As per the results of a large scale survey across India in 2019, it was seen that an overwhelming majority of rural Indians used mobile phones to access internet. Only two percent of the respondents stated that they used a laptop to browse the internet, while none of the respondents used tablets to go online.

A survey conducted in July 2021 asked gaming influencer followers in selected countries which gaming devices they used for gaming. Overall, 87 percent of respondents in Indonesia stated that they used smartphones or tablets for gaming purposes whilst 85 percent of people in India and Singapore said that they used these devices. Additionally, 73 percent of respondents in Great Britain said that they used games consoles whilst 73 percent of those in Poland stated that they gamed on desktop computers and laptops.

In the third quarter of 2024, roughly 62 percent of x86 computer processor or CPU tests recorded were from Intel processors, while 35.5 percent were AMD processors. When looking solely at laptop CPUs, Intel is the clear winner, accounting for nearly 72 percent of laptop CPU test benchmark results in the third quarter of 2024. Traditional x86 processors The x86 is a family of instruction set architectures (ISA) for computer processors, otherwise known as central processing units (CPUs), which were initially developed by Intel. They refer to the way a CPU handles information, with x86 architecture of variable instruction lengths, and primarily of a complex instruction set computer (CISC) design. Although additions and developments to the x86 processor have taken place, backward compatibility has remained a key feature of the architecture; the newer x86 processors can run all the programs that older processors could run. Apple Mac processors The x86 processor is the predominant hardware platform for laptops, desktops, and servers globally. Both Windows and Mac laptops have used x86 chips; previously, Apple’s line of Mac products used PowerPC microprocessors, with the transition to Intel x86 architecture first acknowledged in 2005. The first generation of Intel-based Mac computers were released in January 2006, a partnership that continued through until 2020, where Apple announced the switch of the Mac line from Intel CPUs to Arm-based processors. The decision was made in order to standardize on one CPU architecture for all iPhone, iPad, and Mac products.

Facebook is the leading social network worldwide, and its accessibility through multiple mobile apps as well as its mobile website. In January 2021, over 98 percent of active user accounts worldwide accessed the social network via any kind of mobile phone.

Facebook in mobile-first markets India is thecountry with the largest Facebook audience by far, with 340 million users on the platform, followed the United States, Indonesia, and Brazil all of which have more than 100 million Facebook users each. With the exception of the United States, all of these are digital markets with mobile-first audiences. In many emerging markets, mobile is often the first online experience, providing online users with their first internet experience through inexpensive smartphones and mobile data contracts. In India and Indonesia, mobile by far surpasses desktop in terms of audiences and time spent.

Mobile Facebook access Due to the social network’s wide reach on mobile, it is unsurprising that Facebook consistently ranks as one of the most-downloaded app publishers worldwide. Some of the apps published by Facebook include the eponymous social networking app (and its low-bandwidth version, Facebook Lite), Facebook Messenger (also available as Messenger Lite), Facebook Pages Manager and Facebook Local. In the Google Play Store, Facebook Messenger, Messenger Lite and Facebook frequently rank among the top downloaded apps every month.