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by throwaway48476 739 days ago
The opposite is true. There are many fewer android OEM's now, at least in the US. LG, Sony, Motorola, HTC, etc all quit or were bought out.
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Is it? On the other side of the equation, there are tons of new Chinese Android OEMs: Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo and friends, ZTE, Lenovo, Haier, Hisense. AFAIK all of these except ZTE and Huawei sell in the US, often under different brands.
FWIW I've never actually seen anyone using any of these except ZTE (I'm in northeastern US).
They do tend to sell under different names - Lenovo sells as Motorola, and Oppo sells as OnePlus. Before the ban, I'd also see a few Huaweis, also in the northeast. In Canada, Huawei used to be fairly common and TCL is still carried by many carriers as a budget option.