does an obscure apple change in contact sharing really hurt new social media apps?

of course Americans think the world revolves around them; but ios is only about 10% of the world market and Android probably 90%.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/apple-social-apps-contacts-change.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20241021&instance_id=137445&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=152095&segment_id=181016&user_id=f22997f23dde93902a4eca99e4a5d3df