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At last count there are 5 major operating systems with >100M users, how many are required in order for there to be "competition"?
by newobj 5y ago
At last count there are 5 major operating systems with >100M users, how many are required in order for there to be "competition"?
- deusum 5y agoWindows Linux Android based on Linux macOS (based on FreeBSD) iOS also based on BSD So, mostly three. Especially considering the BSDs' wide server presence.
- jfb 5y agoDarwin is much further from BSD than Android is from mainline Linux, and the Android/Linux distinction is entirely sufficient to call them different operating systems. I think you can accurately say that there are either two or five distinct operating systems in wide consumer use at the moment: Windows and Unix, or Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux.