Comment on Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017

applejacks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• seaneoo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How is Samsung struggling to stay afloat? Samsung has had the largest global market share for years.

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  • war@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Apple fanboys like to dream big.

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    • mayonaise_met@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And are under the impression that what’s going on in the US is going on worldwide. Apple is doing fine worldwide, but isn’t nearly as dominant as in the US.

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      • datelmd5sum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah if you forget your iphone cable here, you’re going to have to go buy another one since you’re probably the only person you know that has an iphone.

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  • HaKeNdoR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes. But I think most importantly, Samsung can spin out budget phones and actually sell it. No one’s buying cheap Apple product. Currently mostly it is a status symbol… as most-if-not-all high end phones. Don’t get me wrong, great devices but we all know what kind of personalities mostly go for Apple stuff.

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    • darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I pretty much go for the se models when they have them, and buy every 4-5 generations. Most people want a device that works, and most smart people want a device that’s going to get more than a couple years of software support. So Apple.

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      • HaKeNdoR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Google should have just spread Android features to 2, 3 years instead of as soon as possible, to match feature set of iOS. Then most Android would be getting easy 10 years of support. But then again most Android phone manufacturers selling a device, Apple is selling services and side products. Giving the die size of A16 SOC and quality hardware, Apple probably giving you their phones at cost and keeping them up to date so you can buy their other products.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Looks like Samsung and Apple trade off on leader of global market share, but Samsung is second place when it isn’t first.

    counterpointresearch.com/…/global-smartphone-shar…

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• ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tell me you only live in an American bubble without telling me you live in an American bubble.

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  • applejacks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How much money do you think OEMs make off selling cheap Android phones?

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    • Never_Sm1le@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Xiaomi making banks selling mid and low tier phones

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    • steakmeout@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you know any other manufacturers?

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google, sure. But Samsung has more marketshare than Apple.

  counterpointresearch.com/…/global-smartphone-shar…

  20% Samsung 17% Apple 12% Xiaomi 10% OPPO 8% Vivo

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d doubt Samsung will be struggling to stay afloat. They’re so diversified they could pick one of their departments to throw money at and just run at a loss in perpetuity, if they felt like it. Apple makes phones, computers, and phone and computers accessories.

  Samsung makes phones and computers. And chips. And container ships.

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  • EddieTee77@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And insurance, and healthcare, and construction, etc. They are involved in so many different industries it’s almost hard to believe.

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    • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When one of the owner family’s board members fell sick a few years ago they were monitored at a Samsung hospital in Korea if i’m not mistaken

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    • datelmd5sum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And tanks, missiles, artillery, fighter jets…

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      • EddieTee77@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s incredible how much they are involved in

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  • applejacks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yea, was just talking about their phone lines, not them as a company.

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• dimspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Huawei and Honor can both survive purely on domestic sales before you even worry about ROW.

  No idea why you think there are only three brands, or why you think the US is the only market that matters (it’s fairly obvious you are US based)

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Absolutely nothing good came from them ending the Nexus program. I LOVED all the variety in Nexus. The Pixel phones are just shitty iPhone clones with barely better features.

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  • GopherOwl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t even say better features. This will be my last Pixel. I’m tired of Google just not maintaining their products at all.

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