| > The infrastructure in this analogy is the platform. The road carries all types of vehicles from place to place. The cellular network carries data from place to place and any phone can use that network. Different physical manufacturers make stuff to go on the “digital highway”. I didn’t make that term up. > Yes of course, they add them when they want to compete with other Android phones. The market for low cost Android handsets is quite competitive. Most of Samsung commercials go after Apple. Samsungs foldable phones costs more than the most expensive iPhone. > The issue is that if you want a ruggedized phone that runs iOS on Apple Silicon, or one that has a non-Apple app store, that isn't available. Even if there are both companies interested in making it and customers interested in buying it I also can’t buy a gas powered Tesla. > Google is not really even making the attempt. You mean they are spending money creating products and advertising them during the Super Bowl and they don’t care? > Samsung is only a fraction of the size of Apple and punches well above their weight, but there's only so much you can do in a bidding war against someone with more money. You realize that Samsung makes its own processors? How much do you really think it costs to design a processor? Just like Microsoft, Samsung was making cell phones before the iPhone even existed and when Apple was basically about to go bankrupt. Whose fault is it that they couldn’t compete with a decade headstart? |