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Except they still control the OS market.
by techntoke 7y ago
Except they still control the OS market.
- asveikau 7y agoIncluding macOS, iOS, android, chromeos, linux? (Laugh at the last one if you must, but it is more viable today than it was in the 1990s chiefly because platform agnostic web based content is more normal in niches formerly occupied by Win32.)
- erklik 7y ago> linux? (Laugh at the last one if you must, but it is more viable today than it was in the 1990s chiefly because platform agnostic web based content is more normal in niches formerly occupied by Win32.) and is also used on the majority of non-personal computers in the world. That's not some small number and a very large market share.
- audiolover 7y agoTo add to this: Science? HPC? Hardware? Web? DIY? These "niches" (which are actually huge) are dominated by Linux. You'll be actually laughed out of the room if you talked about using Windows here, and mac is not even remotely present.
- erklik 7y ago> Science? HPC? Hardware? Web? DIY? These "niches" (which are actually huge) are dominated by Linux. Yup. To add to that, IoT is also dominated by Linux. which number around 30 Billion connected devices worldwide. That's completely Linux.
- techntoke 7y agoMaybe some people in the science and HPC community, but I find a lot of developers and people at meetups surrounding Linux technologies are often using Macs. Red Hat notoriously employees a lot of people that don't even use Linux. I personally use Arch Linux. You can't really compare something that is open source though and very modular, to something like Windows though.
- kbumsik 7y ago> Except they still control the OS market. So is MS disturbing macOS competition? I guess not much. And don't forget that MS only have strong consumer OS market share, not entire OS.