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.

  • Perkele@lemmy.whynotdrs.org
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    1 year ago

    To add to this: In GrapheneOS you can install sandboxed Google Play in a secondary profile for banking etc. This way you can keep your main profile Google free and totally isolated from their preying eyes.

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      1 year ago

      This, although the vast majority of users just use the one profile and just enjoy the benefits of a sandboxed and de-privileged Google.

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      1 year ago

      Just be warned if your work uses Google Chat that will not work on GrapheneOS even with sandboxed Google Play.