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Android has dozens of manufacturers, each making changes to the underlying os (which is why upgrading takes so long). There are small manufacturers like the ess
by Illniyar 8y ago
Android has dozens of manufacturers, each making changes to the underlying os (which is why upgrading takes so long). There are small manufacturers like the essential phone and that 50000$ phone that is supposed to be secure.
While apple is definitely a monopoly in the ios market the phone market as a whole is definitely not an oligopoly
- ken 8y agoWhy do you say that? It sure looks like it to me. Samsung and Apple are the giants, with a couple others like LG/Motorola/Huawei making up almost all of the rest. Googling for "smartphone oligopoly" turns up a bunch of economics and investing webpages that use smartphones as their prime example. Is a $50,000 phone a realistic alternative to an iPhone? The whole point of this exercise is to get a phone that is well-supported for longer. Should I really believe that an Android name from a no-name brand is going to have better long-term support? On what would I base that? The "which is why upgrading takes so long" is a perfect example of an axis upon which consumers, via the market, have no control. If you want the latest version of Android, there's only 2 brands that offer it so far (Google and OnePlus), so you'd better agree with all of the other decisions that one of these two made.