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by judge2020 1289 days ago
Given they accommodate over 50% of United States residents[0], I'm not sure the band is as narrow as you say it is. Of course, for those it doesn't accommodate, there is a different product that hopefully better fits their use cases.

0: https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/02/iphone-us-market-share/
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makeitdouble 1289 days ago
Market share is irrelevant if there’s a high enough barrier to entry and cost of switching for the user. For instance Comcast probably has a very good market share and competitors too on paper.
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judge2020 1289 days ago
Is the cost of switching that high? People at the phone store do 'data transfers' already (seemingly just texts, pictures/videos, and contacts), and, hilariously, the transfer to Android is a lot better than the 'move to iOS' app that has terrible reviews[0]. I bet most of the time being spent on switching will be on reinstalling all your apps and logging back into them.

0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.move...

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makeitdouble 1288 days ago
It is, depending on how long you've been using the platform.

For instance if you've been on iOS for a few years and bought a healthy amount of music, those are virtually gone after moving to android. You can mitigate that by either

- forever keep paying Apple through an Apple Music subscription

- somewhat extract the tracks and DRM free them (tracks were DRM free when bought from the Mac, but not when bought on iOS last time I tinkered with it). Of course Apple will make as hard as they can to block this route.

Same for movies and books, and for games/apps as well if they don't have a multi OS pricing scheme.

Switching cost is not just time spent to get used to, more often than not it"s a non significant amount of money lost in the process.

Same deal the other way round of course: Google is more diligent on exposing their content on iOS, but there will stil be paid games and apps to be lost in the process.

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BlueTemplar 1289 days ago
Is there some protocol for the programs you bought on iOS, to get them again for free on Android ? (When they even exist.)
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