Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017

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Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017
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We are heading towards a future of Apple, Samsung, and Google, with even the latter two struggling to stay afloat.

And to be fair, Google deserves a lot of the blame for this happening.

Tell me you only live in an American bubble without telling me you live in an American bubble.

I'd doubt Samsung will be struggling to stay afloat. They're so diversified they could pick one of their departments to throw money at and just run at a loss in perpetuity, if they felt like it. Apple makes phones, computers, and phone and computers accessories.

Samsung makes phones and computers. And appliances. And chips. And container ships.

And insurance, and healthcare, and construction, etc. They are involved in so many different industries it's almost hard to believe.

When one of the owner family's board members fell sick a few years ago they were monitored at a Samsung hospital in Korea if i'm not mistaken

Yea, was just talking about their phone lines, not them as a company.

Huawei and Honor can both survive purely on domestic sales before you even worry about ROW.

No idea why you think there are only three brands, or why you think the US is the only market that matters (it's fairly obvious you are US based)

Absolutely nothing good came from them ending the Nexus program. I LOVED all the variety in Nexus. The Pixel phones are just shitty iPhone clones with barely better features.

I wouldn't even say better features. This will be my last Pixel. I'm tired of Google just not maintaining their products at all.

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