I was reading a bit about different phones, and one point that comes up a lot from USA commenters is that people cannot just use any phone they want, it needs to be a specific model supporting their network carrier, especially the network bands.
I live in Europe, this is pretty unknown here, and from what I gather, Asian buyers are also free to use any phone they want.
How come that nothing has ever been made to improve that situation?
Americans have uniquely accepted a compromising position of a “lower” price phone that only works with one network and locks them in for a fairly long duration.
The American population has accepted quite a few of these uniquely compromising situations under the guise of “the free market”