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Every day, billions of people unlock a phone governed by rules written by just two companies. The question is no longer which one is better, but whether the world will one day be left with only one, and whether that would be a blessing or a danger.

RESEARCH ARTICLE

One Platform or Many?

The Convergence Paradox and the Future of the iOS–Android Duopoly

Control, competition, law, sovereignty and the coming intelligence layer

Abstract

Two operating systems, Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, run almost every smartphone outside China, and a third, Huawei’s HarmonyOS, has become a serious force within it. This article asks whether the world is better served by continuing with several mobile systems, and whether the market will in time be confined to one. It brings together the history, ownership and market position of the two platforms with evidence on litigation and regulation in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan and India, and with developments in artificial intelligence, national technology policy and sustainability law, current to September 2026.

The article advances two original propositions. The first, the Convergence Paradox, holds that the two rivals are becoming structurally alike from opposite directions: law is forcing the closed system (iOS) to open, while security policy is leading the open system (Android) to tighten. The second, the Layered Plurality Thesis, holds that the decisive question is no longer how many operating systems exist, but at which layer of the technology stack power is concentrated. The evidence suggests that a single global operating system is the least likely outcome and also the least desirable one; that the operating-system layer will remain plural and increasingly regional; and that the real risk of convergence lies above the operating system, in the artificial-intelligence and services layer, where one supplier can already power both rival platforms.

Keywords: iOS; Android; HarmonyOS; platform competition; network effects; Digital Markets Act; Mobile Software Competition Act; (MSCA) antitrust; digital sovereignty; artificial intelligence; interoperability; India.

1. Introduction and Research Question

Few technologies have reshaped daily life as quickly as the smartphone. Through it, billions of people communicate, work, learn, bank, pay and reach public services. Yet the software that governs these devices is controlled by very few firms, and the rules they set operate, in practice, as private regulation of a large part of the digital economy.

Most writing on this subject asks which platform is better, or whether regulators should break the duopoly. This article asks a different and more structural question in two parts. First, the normative question: is it better for society to continue with more than one mobile operating system? Second, the predictive question: will the market, in the foreseeable future, be confined to a single system? The two are connected, because the forces that might produce one system are the same forces that make one system dangerous.

The article proceeds as follows. Sections 2 to 5 set out the foundations: origins, control, lesser-known facts and current market position. Section 6 examines demand. Section 7 analyses the forces pulling toward consolidation and those sustaining plurality. Sections 8 and 9 develop the article’s two original propositions. Section 10 sets out four scenarios. Section 11 answers the normative question, Section 12 applies the analysis to India, and Section 13 concludes with recommendations.

2. Origins: Why the Two Systems Were Created

Commercial release. Apple announced the iPhone in January 2007 and released it on June 29, 2007. Android Inc. began work on its operating system in 2003 and was acquired by Google in 2005. The first Android phone, the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1), was announced on September 23, 2008, and went on sale in the United States on October 22, 2008.

Before 2007 the smartphone market was fragmented. Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Palm each had interfaces built around styluses or small keyboards, browsing the web was a poor experience, and carriers rather than users largely determined what software a phone could run.

Each company also faced a strategic risk. Apple recognised that phones with built-in music players could erode the iPod, then one of its most important products, and chose to build the device that would replace it. Google saw that if Microsoft or the carriers came to control mobile software, its search and advertising business could be marginalised on the devices through which the next generation of users would reach the internet. A freely available operating system offered a way to keep Google’s services present wherever phones were sold.

These founding motives matter for the research question. Apple built iOS around tight control of hardware, software and services; Google built Android as an open platform that could spread across manufacturers and keep its services at the centre of mobile life. Two different business logics produced two different systems, and each logic still requires the other system to exist: Apple’s premium model depends on a mass market it does not serve, and Google’s services model depends on reaching Apple’s users as well as its own.

3. Who Controls the Systems

iOS is controlled entirely by Apple. It is closed-source, runs only on Apple hardware, and Apple decides which apps are permitted through its App Store review process.

Android is formally open, but Google exercises substantial control over the proprietary services and ecosystem that accompany it on many devices. Any manufacturer may use the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) without Google’s involvement, and forks exist. However, the services most users expect, Google Mobile Services (Play Store, Gmail, Maps, YouTube), are licensed separately, and a manufacturer must meet Google’s compatibility requirements to obtain that licence. This control is a matter of regulatory record: in 2018 the European Commission fined Google €4.34 billion over its Android licensing conditions, a decision the EU General Court largely upheld in 2022, reducing the fine to €4.125 billion [7]. The consequences became visible when US sanctions cut Huawei off from Google’s services in 2019, which sharply reduced the appeal of its phones outside China, and, as Section 7 shows, set in motion the creation of a third system.

4. Lesser-Known Facts

•   Android was first conceived for digital cameras. Andy Rubin’s team pitched it in that form around 2004 before pivoting to phones.

•   The iPhone prompted Android to rethink its early design. Early Android prototypes resembled BlackBerry devices with physical keyboards; after the iPhone’s unveiling, development moved toward touchscreen designs.

•   The first iPhone had no App Store. Steve Jobs initially encouraged developers to build web apps. The App Store opened in July 2008.

•   Google pays Apple billions for default search placement on Apple devices. Evidence in the US antitrust trial put the payment at about $20 billion for 2022. In August 2024 a federal court held that Google had unlawfully maintained a monopoly in general search [8].

•   Android produced a landmark copyright ruling. In Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.(2021), the US Supreme Court held that Google’s copying of Java API declarations was fair use, a significant decision on software interfaces [6].

•   Both systems have older foundations. iOS descends from macOS, whose lineage traces to NeXTSTEP and BSD Unix. Android runs on the Linux kernel.

•   Courts and regulators are opening both platforms. The EU’s Digital Markets Act required Apple to permit alternative app distribution in Europe from 2024. In the United States, Epic v. Google produced an October 2024 injunction requiring significant changes to Google Play for three years, including allowing rival app stores to access the Play catalogue and be distributed through Google Play, while restricting certain exclusivity practices. The Ninth Circuit upheld the injunction in July 2025. Google and Epic reached a settlement in November 2025 and jointly sought to modify the remedies, filing a revised proposal in March 2026, but withdrew that request in July 2026. Google continues to comply with the October 2024 injunction and began carrying rival app stores within Google Play in the United States from July 22, 2026 [11].

5. The Present Market: A Duopoly That Is Becoming Tripolar

Two kinds of measurement must be distinguished. Usage data, such as StatCounter’s, is derived from web traffic and describes devices in use. Sales data, such as Counterpoint Research’s, describes new phones sold in a given quarter. Neither is an installed-base count, and the two can legitimately differ.

On usage, in August 2026 Android accounted for about 68% of worldwide mobile operating-system usage and about 93% in India, according to StatCounter [2][3]. On sales, Counterpoint’s quarterly series shows the following [1]:

Table 1. Global smartphone sales share by operating system. Source: Counterpoint Research [1]. Figures are for units sold in each quarter, not devices in use.

Three features of this data are significant for the research question. First, iOS recorded its highest-ever June-quarter share in Q2 2026, at 20%, while Android’s share fell four points year on year, largely because rising component costs hit the entry-level segment where Android dominates [1]. Second, in the United States the two systems are close to parity in some quarters and iOS leads in others: Counterpoint puts iOS at 69% of US sales in Q4 2025 [1]. Third, and most important, the market is no longer purely a duopoly. HarmonyOS accounted for 24% of China’s smartphone sales in Q2 2026 and 5% globally [1], and has overtaken iOS in China in several quarters since early 2024 [5]. Huawei stated at its 2026 developer conference that HarmonyOS had become China’s second-largest smartphone operating system [4].

The empirical trend, in short, runs away from a single system, not toward it.

6. Which System Is More Sought After?

The answer depends on what “sought after” means, because the two platforms win on different measures. By sheer numbers, Android: it runs on most of the world’s mobile devices and on the overwhelming majority in India, largely because it is available at every price point across dozens of manufacturers. By desirability and value, the iPhone: it dominates the premium segment, leads in several recent quarters in the United States [1], retains resale value better, commands unusually high brand loyalty, and has historically generated a disproportionate share of smartphone industry profits and app-store revenue.

Put simply, Android is the most used, and the iPhone is the most coveted. This segmentation is itself a structural barrier to a single system: the two platforms are not fighting for identical customers, so neither can easily absorb the other’s market.

7. Forces Toward One System and Forces Sustaining Plurality

7.1 Forces pulling toward consolidation

•   Network effects. An operating system is a two-sided platform. More users attract more developers, and more apps attract more users. Such markets tend to “tip”, and mobile history confirms it: Symbian, BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone and others disappeared not because they were technically worthless but because developers left and users followed.

•   Developer economics. Building and maintaining an app for each platform doubles cost. Every additional platform is a tax on developers, which creates constant pressure toward fewer systems.

•   Services integration. Google’s own platform strategy points toward unification within its ecosystem. It has confirmed that ChromeOS and Android are being combined into a single Android-based platform for laptops and tablets, reported under the codename Aluminium OS [21]. Consolidation is therefore already occurring, but within firms rather than across them.

•   The intelligence layer. As Section 9 explains, the cost of training frontier AI models favours very few suppliers, and those suppliers can serve every operating system at once.

7.2 Forces sustaining plurality

•   Law in every major jurisdiction now treats the duopoly as a matter for regulation, not elimination. The European Commission fined Apple €500 million in April 2025 for breaching the DMA’s anti-steering obligation [13], and opened proceedings to specify how Apple must make iOS interoperable with third-party connected devices [14]. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority designated both Apple and Google with strategic market status in their mobile platforms on 22 October 2025, for five years [15]. Japan’s Mobile Software Competition Act took full effect in December 2025, requiring designated providers to allow third-party app stores and alternative payments [16]. In the United States, a federal judge refused to dismiss the Justice Department’s monopolisation suit against Apple [12], and the search case produced remedies barring exclusive default contracts, now under appeal [8][9][10]. India’s Competition Commission penalised Google ₹1,337.76 crore in October 2022 over its Android practices, and the dispute has moved to the Supreme Court [17]. Every one of these regimes presupposes at least two platforms. None contemplates a single one; a single system would itself trigger intervention.

•   Geopolitics and digital sovereignty. HarmonyOS exists because US sanctions cut Huawei off from Google’s services. The lesson that a nation’s phones can be switched off by a foreign government has been learned widely. India’s BharOS, an AOSP-based system incubated at IIT Madras and launched in January 2023, was presented explicitly as a contribution to Atmanirbhar Bharat and aimed first at organisations with stringent security needs [18]. The regulatory friction is also transatlantic: the White House described the EU’s 2025 Apple fine as “economic extortion” [13]. A fragmented world does not converge on one operating system.

•   Market segmentation. As Section 6 showed, the two platforms serve largely different customers, one by price reach and one by premium desirability.

•   Switching costs on both sides. Users are held by photos, messages, purchased apps and accessories; developers are held by tools and revenue. These costs protect each incumbent from the other as much as from newcomers.

•   Security and resilience. A single operating system on almost every phone would be a monoculture: one vulnerability, one faulty update or one policy decision could affect nearly every user at once. Diversity is a form of systemic insurance.

•   Sustainability law. Since 20 June 2025, EU ecodesign rules require manufacturers to provide operating-system updates for at least five years after a phone model stops being sold [23]. Longer-lived devices mean slower turnover of the installed base, which slows any tipping process.

8. The Convergence Paradox

The first original proposition of this article is that the two rivals are converging, but from opposite directions.

iOS is being opened by law. Under the DMA, Apple has had to allow alternative app distribution in the EU, remove steering restrictions and prepare interoperability measures for third-party devices [13][14]. Under Japan’s MSCA it must permit third-party stores and payments [16], and the UK CMA has secured commitments on app review and iOS interoperability [15].

Android is being tightened by security policy. Google announced that apps installed on certified Android devices, including those sideloaded from outside the Play Store, must come from developers who have verified their identity. The requirement opened to all developers in March 2026 and takes effect in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand in September 2026, with a wider rollout from 2027 [19]. Google presents this as an anti-malware measure; critics see it as a narrowing of Android’s historic openness.

The result is a movement toward a common middle: a governed, semi-open platform in which alternative distribution is permitted but identity, review and security controls remain with the platform owner. This convergence has a counter-intuitive consequence. As the two systems grow alike, the choice between them turns less on philosophy and more on price, brand and the services layered on top. Paradoxically, convergence of design reduces the pressure to converge on a single system, because users can move between two similar platforms more easily than between two radically different ones. Regulators, by demanding interoperability and portability, are deliberately reinforcing this effect.

9. The Intelligence Layer and the Layered Plurality Thesis

The second original proposition is that the count of operating systems is becoming the wrong measure of concentration. The smartphone stack has distinct layers: hardware, operating system, app distribution, services and, increasingly, artificial intelligence. Power can be plural at one layer and concentrated at another.

The evidence of 2025–2026 is striking. In January 2026 Apple and Google announced a multi-year agreement under which Google’s Gemini models will serve as the foundation for Apple’s next-generation Siri and other Apple Intelligence features; Google’s technology already drives much of Samsung’s Galaxy AI [20]. At the same time, the US search remedies expressly allow Google to keep paying distribution partners, including Apple, for default placement of Search, Chrome and its generative-AI products, while barring exclusive contracts [9]. In other words, the two “rival” operating systems may increasingly share a single intelligence supplier.

If AI assistants become the main way people use phones, asking an agent to book, pay or write rather than opening separate apps, the operating system recedes into infrastructure, much as the electrical wiring behind a wall matters less to a household than the appliances plugged into it. Companies are already preparing for that shift: OpenAI acquired the hardware start-up io in 2025 and has signalled new consumer devices, with launch expectations reported for the latter part of 2026 [22]. Whether such devices succeed is uncertain, but they show that the contest is moving to a layer above the operating system.

This produces the Layered Plurality Thesis: the likely future is several operating systems, regionally distributed, running on top of a highly concentrated intelligence and services layer. The public debate asks whether there will be one operating system; the more important question is whether there will be one intelligence.

10. Four Scenarios to 2035

Table 2. Scenarios for the mobile platform market. Likelihood assessments are the author’s qualitative judgements based on the evidence in Sections 5 to 9, not statistical forecasts.

Scenario A is the least likely because every force in Section 7.2 works against it: it would be blocked by competition law in every major jurisdiction, resisted by governments on sovereignty grounds, and undermined by the segmentation of demand. The realistic future combines elements of B, C and D, with D the dominant pattern.

11. The Normative Question: Would One System Be Better?

A single system would bring real benefits. Developers would build once, users would never face compatibility problems, and security standards could be uniform. For education and public services in particular, one platform would simplify delivery.

The costs, however, are greater. A single system would remove the competitive discipline that drives innovation; the duopoly’s own history shows that the iPhone forced Android to rethink its design, and Android’s price reach forced Apple to widen its range. It would concentrate private rule-making over a large part of the economy in one firm, beyond the reach of any single government. It would create a security monoculture. And it would hand one company, and effectively one jurisdiction, a switch over the world’s communications, a risk the Huawei episode has already made concrete.

The better course is therefore to continue with several systems, but to make them interoperable. The policy goal should be plurality with portability: users able to move their data, apps and purchases between platforms, and developers able to reach all platforms on fair terms. Most of the regulation reviewed above is, in substance, an attempt to secure exactly this.

12. The Indian Perspective

India offers the clearest test of the analysis. Android’s usage share of about 93% [3] makes India one of the most concentrated large markets in the world, yet Indian policy has pursued plurality through three channels: competition enforcement, through the CCI’s Android case [17]; sovereignty, through BharOS for sensitive users [18]; and, most distinctively, public digital infrastructure.

The last point deserves emphasis. India’s Unified Payments Interface works identically on every phone and every operating system, because it is an open, publicly governed rail rather than a feature owned by a platform. It demonstrates in practice the principle of Section 11: where a function of national importance is built as interoperable public infrastructure, the identity of the underlying operating system matters far less. For India, the more productive question may not be whether to build an indigenous operating system, but which critical functions, such as identity, payments, health records and education, should sit on open, platform-neutral layers that no operating-system owner can control.

13. Conclusion and Recommendations

The answer to the research question is twofold. On the normative question, it is better to continue with several operating systems, provided they are made interoperable; a single system would trade short-term convenience for long-term fragility, concentration and loss of sovereignty. On the predictive question, the market is unlikely to be confined to one operating system. The evidence points the other way: toward a regulated duopoly, a growing third system in China, and a Convergence Paradox in which the rivals grow alike without merging.

The real risk of convergence lies one layer higher. As AI assistants become the principal interface and a small number of model providers supply both rival platforms, the world could end up with many operating systems and one intelligence. That is where the attention of lawmakers, educators and citizens should now turn.

For users: prefer services that export data in open formats and work on more than one platform, and treat long-term software support as a purchase criterion.

For developers and institutions: build cross-platform and web-first where practical, and avoid dependence on any single store or assistant for critical services.

For policymakers: extend interoperability and portability duties from the operating-system layer to the AI-assistant layer, and build nationally critical functions as open, platform-neutral public infrastructure.

Note on Method and Limitations

This article is a qualitative synthesis of publicly available sources current to 21 September 2026. Market figures come from two providers using different methods, described in Section 5, and should not be combined. Several matters remain in litigation, including the US cases against Apple and Google and India’s Android appeal, and their outcomes may alter the analysis. Reports on unreleased products, such as new AI devices, are forward-looking and uncertain. The scenario assessments in Table 2 are reasoned judgements, not forecasts. Foundational historical facts in Sections 2 to 4 reflect the established public record and were checked in earlier drafts of this work.

Digital Resources Consulted

All online resources were accessed on or before 21 September 2026. Numbers correspond to the bracketed references in the text.

Market data

[1] Counterpoint Research, “Global Smartphone Sales Share by Operating System” (quarterly series to Q2 2026). https://www.counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smartphone-os-market-share

[2] StatCounter Global Stats, “Mobile Operating System Market Share Worldwide,” August 2026 (verified by the author). https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

[3] StatCounter Global Stats, “Mobile Operating System Market Share India,” August 2026 (verified by the author). https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/india

[4] Huawei Central, “HarmonyOS has become 2nd largest smartphone OS in China: Huawei” (HDC 2026). https://www.huaweicentral.com/harmonyos-has-become-2nd-largest-smartphone-os/amp/

[5] Eye Shenzhen, “HarmonyOS 2nd most used phone operating system in China,” 20 June 2024. https://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2024-06/20/content_31029320.htm

Judgments and litigation

[6] Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., 593 U.S. 1 (2021), Supreme Court of the United States.

[7] Case T-604/18, Google and Alphabet v. Commission (Google Android), General Court of the European Union, judgment of 14 September 2022.

[8] Hughes Hubbard & Reed, “Court Issues Remedies Ruling in United States v. Google Search Case,” 3 September 2025. https://www.hugheshubbard.com/news/court-issues-remedies-ruling-in-united-states-v-google-search-case

[9] The Jakarta Post (AFP), “Google not required to sell Chrome in antitrust victory,” 3 September 2025. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2025/09/03/google-not-required-to-sell-chrome-in-antitrust-victory.html

[10] MediaPost, “Google Should Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues” (on the pending D.C. Circuit appeal). https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/417015/google-should-be-forced-to-shed-chrome-advocacy-g.html

[11] In re Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation (Epic Games, Inc. v. Google LLC), No. 3:21-md-02981-JD (N.D. Cal.); Ninth Circuit affirmance, 31 July 2025. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket No. 25-521, Google’s abeyance motion describing the November 2025 settlement and joint motion to modify. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25-521/386197/20251202171155690_SCOTUS%20Abeyance%20Motion%20-%20Final.pdf; MLex, “Epic Games, Google propose revised modified injunction,” 4 March 2026. https://www.mlex.com/mlex/articles/2448944/epic-games-google-propose-revised-modified-injunction-in-us-antitrust-litigation; MLex, “Google, Epic withdraw bid to modify US Play Store injunction,” 15 July 2026. https://www.mlex.com/mlex/articles/2501221/google-epic-withdraw-bid-to-modify-us-play-store-injunction; MacRumors, 15 July 2026. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/15/google-third-party-app-stores/

[12] Benton Institute, “Justice Department Sues Apple for Monopolizing Smartphone Markets.” https://benton.org/node/345211; The Sun (Malaysia), “Apple antitrust case proceeds as judge rejects dismissal bid.” https://thesun.my/news/world-news/apple-antitrust-case-proceeds-as-judge-rejects-dismissal-bid-mo14382068/

Regulation

[13] Society for Computers and Law, “European Commission issues Apple with fine under Digital Markets Act,” 24 April 2025. https://www.scl.org/european-commission-issues-apple-with-fine-under-digital-markets-act/; Retail Insight Network, “EU hits Apple with €500m fine over app store restrictions.” https://www.retail-insight-network.com/news/eu-apple-fine-app/

[14] OSNews, “European Commission to order Apple to take interoperability measures.” https://www.osnews.com/story/140771/european-commission-to-order-apple-to-take-interoperability-measures-after-company-refuses-to-comply-with-dma/

[15] UK Competition and Markets Authority, “Apple’s mobile platform” case page. https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/apples-mobile-platform; “Google’s mobile platform.” https://gov.uk/cma-cases/googles-mobile-platform; “The CMA’s programme of work across mobile platforms.” https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-cmas-programme-of-work-across-mobile-platforms

[16] Clifford Chance, “Japan to Implement New Ex-Ante Regulations on Mobile OS, App Stores, Browsers and Search Engines,” July 2024. https://www.cliffordchance.com/content/dam/cliffordchance/briefings/2024/07/new-Japanese-ex-ante-regulations-on-mobile-software.pdf; Wolters Kluwer Competition Blog, “Japan’s Mobile Software Competition Act Grows its Guidelines.” https://legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/competition-blog/japans-mobile-software-competition-act-grows-its-guidelines/; PPC Land, “Google and Apple face Japan’s toughest mobile platform rules yet.” https://ppc.land/google-and-apple-face-japans-toughest-mobile-platform-rules-yet/

[17] Business Standard (PTI), “Google’s plea against CCI order in Android mobile case mentioned in SC.” https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/google-s-plea-against-cci-order-in-android-mobile-case-mentioned-in-sc-124091900733_1.html; Competition Commission of India, order of 20 October 2022 (Android mobile devices).

[18] IIT Madras, “IIT Madras-incubated Firm develops Indigenous Atmanirbhar Mobile Operating System,” press release, 19 January 2023. https://www.iitm.ac.in/happenings/press-releases-and-coverages/iit-madras-incubated-firm-develops-indigenous-atmanirbhar; Computing (UK), “India launches indigenous BharOS mobile operating system.” https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4066129/india-launches-indigenous-bharos-mobile-operating

Technology, AI and sustainability

[19] Bitdefender, “Google to Require Developer Verification Even for Sideloaded Apps,” 28 August 2025. https://www.bitdefender.com/en-au/blog/hotforsecurity/google-developer-verification-sideloaded-apps; Thurrott, report on the verification process. https://www.thurrott.com/?p=329549

[20] The Canberra Times (Reuters/AAP), “Apple, Google strike Gemini deal for revamped Siri,” January 2026. https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9150613/apple-google-strike-gemini-deal-for-revamped-siri/

[21] Nasdaq (RTTNews), “Google Advances Aluminium OS, Its New Android-Based Desktop Platform.” https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/google-advances-aluminium-os-its-new-android-based-desktop-platform; AlCircle, “Google’s big merger plan with Aluminium OS at the forefront.” https://www.alcircle.com/news/googles-big-merger-plan-with-aluminium-os-at-the-forefront-116663

[22] Introl, “OpenAI Consumer Device: Jony Ive’s Screenless AI Hardware Arrives H2 2026” (secondary report; forward-looking). https://introl.com/blog/openai-consumer-device-jony-ive-hardware-2026

[23] heise online, “Guaranteed updates and repairability for smartphones in the EU from June 20.” https://heise.de/-10447853; Omdia, “EU smartphone eco-design regulation is a big challenge to vendors but also necessary change.” https://omdia.tech.informa.com/om137869/eu-smartphone-eco-design-regulation-is-a-big-challenge-to-vendors-but-also-necessary-change

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