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It's interesting that you consider OSX to be dominant when it's market share is closer to Linux than Windows. It's also interest how the Android/iOS market spl
by cptskippy 10y ago
It's interesting that you consider OSX to be dominant when it's market share is closer to Linux than Windows.
It's also interest how the Android/iOS market split is so similar to the Windows/OSX split but the demand for developers doesn't follow. There's a much higher demand for Windows Developers than there are for OSX but the demand for Android vs iOS developers seems to be lopsided with a greater demand for iOS developers.
- eridius 10y agoLinux isn't really a desktop OS. Nearly all of the installations of Linux are in non-desktop-OS contexts. But nearly all installations of OS X are as a desktop OS.
- simonh 10y ago> It's interesting that you consider OSX to be dominant when it's market share is closer to Linux than Windows. And yet for many years Apple has earned more profits in desktop sales than the entire Windows OEM community put together, and not by a little. Linux desktop sales aren't even a blip on the chart. Linux will probably never go away (for some arbitrary definition of 'never), but it's just not a contender in the consumer market or in terms of commercial consumer software. It's just become synonymous with UNIX and consumed the niche occupied by Unixes.
- cptskippy 10y agoI'm not saying Apple hasn't seen significant growth but Apple also has some of the highest profit margins in consumer electronics. So I don't think that's an apt comparison. How many units did they move relatively?
- simonh 10y agoEnough to be a solidly viable platform and not leave agap in the market big enough for a rival to establish itself. That's all they need to do.