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.
Well here are a few examples.
I don’t like having Facebook and stuff on the phone. If I want the app, ill download it.
Secondly, I do not want multiple calendar apps and browsers on the phone by default.
I don’t need chrome and the Samsung browser.
I also do not think I need to setup a samsung account and a google account and have backups in both places.
I guess it’s just a little overwhelming.
I got a Samsung just because I like the phones the best, but otherwise I don’t use any of the pre-installed apps that came with it and disabled/installed all of it.
I honestly think samsung has the best looking phones by far.
If iMessage game to android, I’d switch to a galaxy in a heartbeat, even with the preinstalled stuff. I figure a lot of that can be removed or at least hidden to an extent.
I think this is a big part of why Android is losing popularity but the Pixel is gaining it.
Every manufacturer’s excessive need to fill their phones with as many sponsored apps is getting to a point where people simply don’t buy them anymore.
At least the Pixel sticks to their own Google ecosystem, much like the iPhone and is at least a bit less locked down than others.
But it still installs so many apps I don’t want. I mean iOS allows you to remove almost any app that is preinstalled. Why doesn’t google? I don’t want drive, YTMusic. Their phones have alot of bloat installed.
If Pixel was available in my country in an official capacity that would be the one I would choose. But if I were in the market for an Android, I would go this route for sure. The bloat is more annoying than anything else.
Plus with a Pixel, its just google snooping. With anyone else, it is google and the oem snooping. It would be nice is google pushed using your phone as a desktop more. It could be their way into the desktop space.
You do know that is up to the OEM right? Just like buying a PC. Of course if you buy a laptop from Wal-Mart from some weird company it’s going to come with a bunch of nonsense on it.
We’re talking about pixel, googles phone. It’s going to come with the standard Google products installed.
Difference is that on a PC m you’re free to remove all of that bloat. On android you can’t, not without fucking around with external tools like ADB.