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Just because something has market share doesn’t mean it’s good.
@fuckwit_mcbumcrumble @AProfessional windows
Cheap is a thing isn’t it. I hear Walmart is popular. Poor people love cheap.
I’m not so sure this holds up as well as it once did. You can get some pretty cheap iPhones and Apple even sells some more value-oriented options , although not as cheap as some crappy Android phones. You can also buy Androids much more expensive than any iPhone.
But I hear what you’re saying. I believe you are saying that cheap often means more popular but that doesn’t mean good.
Said another way, Apple sells more smart phone hardware than any other phone manufacturer on the planet. Samsung being a strong second place at 24% of the world.
@simplejack @AProfessional no you have to stick to the “this one company doesn’t sell as much as all of the other companies combined” view of it
because