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Lol. A large amount of these Android devices are just $50 bare minimum specs phones being sold in third world countries, where the only thing they are used for is Whatsapp messaging.

Basically I would not even count this as a smartphone usage. More like the 2020s version of traditional dumbphones.

If you develop Android software you will get flat zero installs from the billions of this type of users.

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You can buy a fairly usable Android smartphone from Samsung or Xiaomi for less than $200. It’s not tough to see that if go and buy a smartphone in a poorer country or you’re not willing to spend the cash which option will win out.

That being said the budget phone experience is worlds apart nowadays from what even buying the first Samsung Galaxy phone was way back. Because that wasn’t even a budget phone and it was kinda bad. It’s much nicer nowadays so it’s fascinating to see the low end get so much nicer in about 10 years.

With respect, $200 might be much more than an entire years worth of income for many people in those countries.

Just because it’s the cost of dinner at a nice restaurant for you doesn’t mean that it’s a whole crap ton of money for someone else.

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