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nah, that's not going to happen.

> Android has an incredible 97 percent market share in India

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/androids-new-oem-rul...

Not everyone can afford Apple's premium.

Feature by feature, and doing a cost comparison, shows that iPhones are very good value. But they don’t have a phone under $400. And even in the developed world that’s a lot of money.

with apple now opening factories in India I wonder if that starts to shift, since they dont have to pay import tariffs

And every time one of our coworkers from India comes to visit the US, they return home with two or three iPhones. I'm guessing there's a big demographic correlation with phone OS choice in India.

You would hope someone would have the balls to enforce the Sherman act.

Last time that happened was about 20 years ago, over microsoft bundling IE with windows though.

Nothing unless they abuse that position in some way that crosses certain legal limits. Same thing with MS. Their monopoly with Windows was not, strictly, the problem. The problem was their behavior with respect to obtaining, maintaining, and then abusing their monopoly position.

0% chance in most of the world.