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Or a Mac. Between them that's, what, 95%+ of the desktop market? More?
by mdoms 6y ago
Or a Mac. Between them that's, what, 95%+ of the desktop market? More?
- snazz 6y agoYeah, this decision makes business sense for Amazon. Updating a Linux client is a nice gesture but affects a very small parentage of desktop users.
- peterdemin 6y agoThat strikes me how enthusiasts can manage Linux software for free, but multibillion corporation cuts it for “business sense”.
- chipotle_coyote 6y agoIt's precisely because the enthusiasts are doing it for free that makes it viable. When a corporation manages Linux software, even if the software is freely available, they're paying for support time -- and if they're developing the software, as in this case, the development time.
- danilocesar 6y agoexactly! Another way to see it: engineering is the easy/cheap part. Testing, supporting, maintaining and marketing are way more expensive, and those are long-term expenses. The enthusiast usually thinks about the engineering bits, and when he's done with it he's done with it. Enterprise software is not like that - or shouldn't be :)
- mdoms 6y agoThere are lots of things I do for free that multibillion dollar corporations would consider a cost centre. Amazon also doesn't maintain my garden.
- PragmaticPulp 6y agoFrom past experience with desktop/client apps, the number of Linux users was under 1%. They were a minority, but a very vocal one.