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Among silly comments on HN, this is sillyness of a 14 year old. Ya can't be serious. Hospitals, wall street banks and hedgefunds, almost all the big F500 corpo
by vagrantJin 5y ago
Among silly comments on HN, this is sillyness of a 14 year old. Ya can't be serious.
Hospitals, wall street banks and hedgefunds, almost all the big F500 corporations and people who actually do meaningful work for laboratories, engineering plants and refineries, and factories making microchips to cars to Aeroplanes are more than likely to be on Windows.
You've been mislead which makes sense since Apple has the effect more on impressionable people. The world literally runs on Windows. The internet runs on Linux. Apple makes premium consumer devices.
- tpush 5y agoThere are more devices running iOS than Windows in the US according to [0]. Add macOS' market share and Apple's the single manufacturer of the most popular OSs in the US, with quite a lead even. [0] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-states-of-america https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-states...
- dQw4w9WgXcQ 5y agoI wonder if those figures include the 200M+ Xbox consoles that all run a Windows-based OS.
- yoz-y 5y agoEverybody has a mobile phone, not everybody has a computer. Comparing iOS and windows market share is interesting, but only for the consumer market.
- EMM_386 5y agoYou just commented on someone saying ... > Hospitals, wall street banks and hedgefunds, almost all the big F500 corporations and people who actually do meaningful work for laboratories, engineering plants and refineries, and factories making microchips to cars to Aeroplanes are more than likely to be on Windows. By saying something about iOS. Engineering plants don't run iOS.