If they're good phones, he talks about them. In the video he gives awards to ZTE, OnePlus and Xiaomi phones - none of them have a large share in the western phone market. If anything I'd say we are drifting away from the oligopoly that was previously just controlled by a few firms, new companies are constantly entering the phone market - there's more choice than there ever has been.
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I can give you credit for that, as ZTE, Oneplus (I believe both of which are available or were recently available at T-Mobile), and Xiaomi probably have growing demand rates faster than Sony's dwindling demand rate, so it was definitely worth mentioning them. But here's what I don't understand: why not Sony? This was by far Sony's best year for phones technology-wise, probably trying to get back in the game after both T-Mobile and Verizon dropped them. That doesn't exempt Sony from by far exceeding in many of those categories with their 2016 line of phones.
But let's face it; we're never going to leave the oligopoly that's been so heavily established, whether it's in regard to carriers or manufacturers. I just remember walking into a T-Mobile store and seeing the abundance in phones, but the last time I walked into one I'm pretty sure I saw a tumbleweed drift across the room. That's a sign of not only manufacturers leaving the industry, but also carriers. Either that or it's cyclical and Motorola will make a comeback in 3 years.
Even HTC is slowly drifting away.
I feel like the elephant in the room is the difference between the western and eastern markets