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Imagine a board meeting at JP Morgan and the CEO pulls out a Pinephone. iOS and Android make up the vast majority of mobile devices and will for the forseeable
by joemazerino 6y ago
Imagine a board meeting at JP Morgan and the CEO pulls out a Pinephone. iOS and Android make up the vast majority of mobile devices and will for the forseeable future.
- ipnon 6y agoThink longer. Apple Inc. was founded 44 years ago. They were a PC company until 11 years ago. Can we be confident that in 2031 the libre phone will have gained no market share to the iPhone? What about in 2064?
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoIf the UX does not vastly improve even beyond what is currently good by Linux standards I don’t see a reason for most people to switch.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoIt might not be the thing driving people to switch, but I'd be hesitant to claim that Desktop Linux is any worse than the competition. Like, I don't have the exposure to comment on Apple's products, but Windows is no better than XFCE, GNOME, MATE, or KDE these days, Android is a toy, and ChromeOS isn't better. Like... I know this is weak praise; Windows versions after 7 got worse as they fragmented (have they re-merged the control panels yet?), Android was born a mobile OS, and ChromeOS was always meant to be cut-down, but the result is that the playing field is level.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoI can see Linux on the smartphone becoming about as popular als Linux on desktop. Appreciated and used by relatively few but enthusiastic people.
- jay_kyburz 6y agoI don't know who the CEO of JP Morgan is, but I imagine he might be one of the few who would pull out a Pinephone with a his own custom software stack with encryption for all his communications and perhaps some other special tools.
- joemazerino 6y agoYou're imagining wrong
- imprettycool 6y agoWhat a wonderful argument. Really shows your intellect.
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