The HN crowd is not representative of the entire market. Most people don't care about the operating system and only want something that 1) is simple to use 2) they already know 3) they happen to already have (most people keep their phones for many years)

Also, the largest phone market in the world is the developing countries market. Cheap phones are supreme right now

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anonym29 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

- Commonly misattributed to Henry Ford

	▲	Night_Thastus 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah I don't think the common consumer thinks that the leap from a regular Android or Apple smartphone to something 'more open' is the leap from a horse-drawn carriage to an automobile. That's fantasy thinking.

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pixxel 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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