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While Android as a whole continues to shrink in the US, Google Pixel keeps growing (9to5google.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I bought my phone for £150 and it's great. I don't understand why people spend £600+ on a phone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think the sweet spot is somewhere around the 300€ range. Below that you definitely already get perfectly reasonable phones, but you still have to make compromises. But at that price point you get most things and the missing features are not as important.

Past that diminishing returns are hitting hard.

The one thing that usually scales the most past that point is the camera. But a phone like the pixel 6a already takes amazing photos. And the only real difference you usually find are extra lenses (particularly zoom).

The only time i could ever see those 1k top phones start to make sense is, if we ever get to the point where phones can replace our personal computers and you just slot them into a dock at home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can dock a Samsung phone and it become like a personal computer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is samsung dex any good? I think my S6 lite actually got it with an update at some point, but i've not tried it out yet. Also not sure if the USB 2.0 would hold it back a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly yeah! It's compatible with the majority of apps, you can use it to game (emulator or native Android games), there's also a lot of productive apps compatible with it, like Microsoft Office (don't know if there's open source alternative compatible) and the majority of video and photo editing software. Personally it doesn't remplace my computer, but while travelling it's really pratical

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I bought my phone for £150 and it’s great. I don’t understand why people spend £600+ on a phone.

Compared to a 600 dollar phone, the camera on your phone is garbage, the build quality is garbage, the performance is garbage, as are most other things. People like good things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Take a look at how the median income in America compares to your country.