TL;DR: Apple dominates the US smartphone market, but EU regulations may offer Android a chance for resurgence by enforcing messaging interoperability and standardizing hardware features.
It’s literally a poor financial decision to get an iPhone in the US. Flagship pricing on Android phones in the US is so fucking low you can get an S23 for like $300 on a $20 4 month contract.
Look, android lost the lead in market share, but it’s still a huge part of the market. It’s not dying off for years to come, if it even does.
At work it was like… Most software developers had android devices, and then business and management had iPhones.
I mean, maybe google should stop shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to messaging. See: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
I don’t think it’s that important who makes the messenger. Most people outside the US use messengers like WhatsApp anyway.
Apple dominates? They have just over 50% of a carrier driven market. That’s not domination.
one single company have over 50% market share? thats domination in my book
I mean, that’s not a huge amount more than androids market share. And that’s just the US, worldwide android has something like 70% market share. As long as it’s dominating worldwide, it’s not gonna die out in the US.
I dunno, the numbers look different if you account for the many different companies that make up that android glob, while any and all ios devices are from a single company
