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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by freedomben on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:06PM (#31137344)
I typically tell people if you want an apples-to-apples (no pun intended) comparison, you can't compare iOS to Android. You need to compare iPhone to Google Pixel. If iOS was open source and available for 3rd parties to roll-their-own, you wouldn't take a cheap "iPhone" maker and compare that against the latest Pixel Pro, so the reverse shouldn't be done either.
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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by afterburner on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:37PM (#31137681)
It seems though in the latest iteration at least, the Pixel 6 is actually worse than the Samsung S22. And frankly I've often felt like Samsungs were the flagship Android phones, not Google's phones.
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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by freedomben on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:14PM (#31173273)
Kind of a late comment but I really do wish Samsung would make a serious attempt at a "stock android" type of device that was affordable, because I think they would kill it. Their phones have always seemed really high quality to me, but so expensive, and the S2 that I had back in the day was riddled with Samsung versions of apps that I didn't want.
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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by afterburner on Saturday April 30, 2022 @12:26PM (#31217151)
Samsung's A-series are excellent affordable phones.
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