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He's specifically talking about Linux on the Desktop, which is hovering around 2% market share ( http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#mo
by wheelie_boy 8y ago
He's specifically talking about Linux on the Desktop, which is hovering around 2% market share ( http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-201003-201807 http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/... )
It might be that bitcoin is similar to linux - used as a backbone, but not customer friendly enough to ever be used directly by customers. Like maybe banks use it to transfer large amounts of money between each other or something.
- v_lisivka 8y agoAlmost 3%, if combined with ChromeOS. IMHO, it is huge success, even if we forget about Linux domination in market of supercomputers, servers, smartphones, and large segment of market in IoT and robotics. Bitcoin is far far away from such success.
- dnautics 8y ago> It might be that bitcoin is similar to linux - used as a backbone, but not customer friendly enough to ever be used directly by customers. That's my point; I think this is a possible and not unreasonable outcome for Bitcoin.