Comment by sjw987

9 months ago

But Apple and Google (Pixel) are a huge portion of the market..

The other manufacturers are forced to go along with the market leaders, but sometimes also side-load apps for post-device-sale revenue.

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scarface_74  9 months ago

The pixel is not a “huge portion of the market”. It’s 4% of the market in the US (https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insight/post-insight-us...) and a nothingburger outside of it.

Globally, Apple has what 20% market share? And besides Qualcomm chips, Apple has a complete separate parts supply chain than Android.

Besides, Samsung could definitely create its own small phone and would if there were a market.

  • sjw987  9 months ago

    Sorry, in my national market. Apple has 51%, Samsung has around 28% and Google 5%. These 3 hold almost 85% of the UK market.

    Samsung, from what I remember used to side-load tons of apps (some alongside identical stock Android apps), so it's in their best interest to maximise screen time through media apps, which generally work best on a bigger screen.

    It's against all of these companies interests to sell you a phone which you quickly use and put away. They all have every incentive to keep you staring, because they're all getting extra money from every ad you see in a game, TV show, movie, web browsing, or wherever else they can slot it.