Smartphone Tiering Triggered by Gemini Intelligence? We Interviewed the Head of the Android Ecosystem / Omokgyo Electronics Store

The Android smartphone ecosystem is currently facing the strangest contradiction in its history.

The AI boom has led to a concentration of server-grade DRAM production, causing the prices of general-purpose smartphone memory to skyrocket.
Low-end manufacturers have even resorted to the tearful struggle of downgrading the RAM in their new products just to survive.

What is interesting, however, is that the primary culprit behind this situation is Google itself.
As the party that ignited the AI war with Gemini, driving up memory prices, it is also the leader responsible for saving the Android camp, which is now groaning under the weight of these soaring memory costs.

"What on earth is Google thinking in this contradictory situation?"
To find the answer, Omokgyo Electronics Store met with Sameer Samat, Vice President of Product Management for Android, at the Google I/O venue to ask him directly!

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(SBS Subusu News)
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