Unless a true alternative emerges (and I don't mean that hopeless current Android hardware), Apple's dominance will thrive undisturbed. Google is unable to pro

Unless a true alternative emerges (and I don't mean that hopeless current Android hardware), Apple's dominance will thrive undisturbed. Google is unable to properly launch a phone worldwide, which is really stupid, giving their claimed "top talent", resources they have and market presence in the entire world. They support Pixel 8 in Ireland (5 million population), Norway (5.4 million), Denmark (5.9) but they don't in Poland (38 million, part of European Union for 20 years) where they bought one of the largest offices for over $600 million USD to support 2,500 employees (it's not a "developing country"), and Poles consider Pixel's price a fair price, not an expensive one. Not to mention lack of Pixel presence in at least some Asian countries with at least several hundred millions of potential customers. They even did not enter all radio frequencies in their version of Android, so that 5G or some Wi-Fi bands don't work in some countries. When you roam from supported country to an unsupported one, you may loose part or all connectivity. They did the same in Chromecast. Multiple layoffs confirm it's all about money at Google, so why they don't reach for an easy money from smartphone market? It's a rhetoric question. Other phones compete with the same hopeless vision, Samsung being notoriously unstable, unfinished, downsized (in certain markets), overheating and just plainly idiotic. No company offers easy and complete tools to exit from iCloud, just toy projects and non-viable software, make people stay with Apple even if they don't want anymore, because it's just easier for them. Therefore for now no company with their Android hardware with dreadful UI and nonexisting/unfinished services is going to be able to compete with the biggest electronic religion, that is Apple. Many years ago idiots from Microsoft killed their smartphone division, which had probably the best realtime OS any phone had at that time, the best basis for app development. They had made some good decisions, such as introducing very easy to use and performant .NET and a nice UI framework, then they have over-engineered it. Had they had the crew with brains inside, had they listened to customers, they would now be the dominant player in the market. But even the simplest feature requests were ignored by them and/or downplayed by their then-zealots. I've read somewhere that Musk may be considering creating his smartphone. Looking forward to it, maybe it'll shake the market, bring some freshness and at least motivate some changes in the industry.