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Android is struggling to keep its market share in the United States, as Apple continues to take over in the market. But, despite Android as a whole losing ground, Google Pixel phones are becoming a bigger slice of the US market.

Counterpoint Research reports that, in Q2 2023, US smartphone shipments dropped by 24% year-over-year. That includes both iPhones and Android phones, and virtually every brand saw a drop in shipments. Samsung saw US shipments drop by 37% while Motorola saw a 17% drop. TCL saw the biggest decline at just shy of 70% year-over-year, and even Apple saw a 6% drop.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s the default Google/android apps which is fine because those are the basics.

And this is the problem, and it's absurd that google haven't been stopped from doing this by any anti-competition regulators. Samsung don't want google apps on their phones, they have to have them. Samsung make their own, and they're often better than googles and are far more integrated into the OS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't have to have them. Mine doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have to from the factory.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What Samsung phones come without google apps and google play services installed?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you’re just contradicting yourself then, and admitting it…….

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

...nope

You're conflating having them with "have to have" them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No I’m not. They have to have them because google forces them on all phones that have google play services.

You seem confused. Do you even understand what’s being discussed here?

Samsung do not sell a single phone that doesn’t have all the google bloat apps on it. You can’t remove them. You disagreed, then agreed, then disagreed within 3 posts.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

They have to have them because google forces them on all phones that have google play services.

No they don't.

You seem confused. Do you even understand what’s being discussed here?

Samsung do not sell a single phone that doesn’t have all the google bloat apps on it.

You're the one who is confused. I've been saying the same thing the whole time: that "Google bloat" is not required. I know because I don't have it and have removed it from several devices.

You keep reiterating that none of them don't have this Google software, as if it contradicts the previous statement, but it does not.

Once again, having this software doesn't mean that they have to have this software.

This is the last time I'll be repeating myself.