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Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017 (www.techspot.com)
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[–] neptune@dmv.social 45 points 1 year ago

That's not really how it works. I would bet most of these companies were building their phones in the same factories as other small time brands. It's not like they were all making their own chips and capacitors and assembling every last piece.