Apple beat all the Android OEMs while selling dramatically more expensive phones.

Apple hits “all-time high” smartphone market share, takes #1 spot for 2023::Apple beat all the Android OEMs while selling dramatically more expensive phones.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    Developing for iOS and Android is expensive and painful. Adding a third ecosystem to that would be more expensive and more painful.

    We could probably come up with something Android adjacent that was able to run APKs. Hell I guess Amazon kind of tried that already.

    Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel for free.

    • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      We could probably come up with something Android adjacent that was able to run APKs.

      It’s already there. Jolla’s SailfishOS can run Android apps using their AlienDalvik compatibility layer. PostmarketOS can also run Android apps using Waydroid.

    • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I had mentioned Firefox OS, now Capyloon. It’s basically PWAs, which would be so easy to make because they just use web technologies