So one thing I hadn't thought about before was that Apple's behavior is even more ridiculous than I originally considered. By force-taking 30%, they're basically ensuring that, for example, there will be a FortFone at some point.
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Like they are sort of daring everyone to come and ship phones that compete with them. Maybe that's fine short-term, but I hadn't considered just how bad that is for their long-term business. People buy phones for the big apps on them, and those devs are now very incentivized...
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Since basically everyone can fork Android and ship a knock-off phone if they want to (and tons of people do), I mean, that's just going to happen. Why wouldn't it?
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that's why Xiaomi is the number 2 smartphone manufacturer now instead of Apple, isn't it?
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I don't know the specific market shares for Android makers, but in general, Android controls the vast majority of the smartphone market by volume. Apple's share is around 25%.pic.twitter.com/v86UDEWliY
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