Comment by contracertainty
1 month ago
Unfortunately iPhones aren't ubiquitous outside their home market. It would have to be on Android to be really useful in the places this would be really useful, i.e. places where regimes turn off the internet when things go badly for them (current situation in the US notwithstanding). That's not to say iPhones shouldn't have it, I'm all for that.
Home market for iPhones is the whole world.
In India IOS has 4% of the market share of mobile devices whereas Android has 96%.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/india
Sure, that is still millions of devices. What about other countries?
Home market would imply one country, but given there are billions of iOS/Apple devices throughout the world, this is not really a valid argument to make.
I mean yeah technically you can buy them pretty much everywhere, but outside of the US there are very few countries where they're above 50% of market share. They're below 30% in the vast majority of countries actually