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Is google really that sticky in 2022? Android is bleeding market share, maps and search are undifferentiated. They have an ad network and an office suite, but the network effects of those last two are middling, at best.

Sure, there's switching inertia, but there's no "killer app" that consumers lose by leaving the google ecosystem. (Except YouTube, I guess.)

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Android is bleeding marketshare to whom? PalmOS? Windows Mobile? Outside of the Great Firewall they dominate everything.

Apple's IOS is shrinking globally due to Apple chasing premium customers and pricing itself out of the market. An iPhone SE is $399 after discounting, the average selling price for a smartphone outside the US is about $90.

The iPhone 13 is a truly fantastic product, state of the art with an SOC that is years ahead of the competition. I'm truly privileged not only to own one, but to live in a country where the average man on the street can also afford to buy one for every member of his family. But I'm part of a tiny minority.

In the US at least, iOS has higher uptake than android for the first time ever in younger age cohorts https://fburl.com/2m6hv5lb

I recall a recent article on HN about this

Google search is not going anywhere and nobody is building a popular android alternative anytime soon.

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