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Incorrect. Android has more games than Linux installations.

scarface_74 2y ago
Pay to win games and other in app purchase monstrosities? I’m not saying iPhones are any better. It came out in the Epic trial that 90% of Apple’s App Store revenue comes from games
forrestthewoods 2y ago
I do not consider Android synonymous with Linux. YMMV.
- worthless-trash 2y ago
  The uname -a will disagree.
  - immibis 2y ago
    oh then Internet Explorer is Mozilla because of the User-Agent string
    - worthless-trash 2y ago
      Your analogy is faulty because one is lying about its origin of source.
  - forrestthewoods 2y ago
    Username remarkably relevant. Clever troll account. Well played.
- lucianbr 2y ago
  > I obviously do have other Linux devices, including an Android phone – so personally I’d really love for it to take over in that market too. Linus Torvalds. But what does he know, eh?
  - otabdeveloper4 2y ago
    Most likely he doesn't know, as he isn't a phone OEM. In reality pretty much no Android phone runs a stock upstream Linux. They all have horrible proprietary modified kernels. So no, Android isn't even Linux in the narrow technical sense of the kernel it runs. (The Android userland, of course, is an entirely different OS that has nothing at all whatsoever to do with Linux or any other flavor of UNIX, current or historical.)
    - worthless-trash 2y ago
      At what % would it no longer be Linux ? What happens when they backport fixes from upstream for certain problems ?
      - otabdeveloper4 2y ago
        > At what % would it no longer be Linux ? Wrong question. Android phones run proprietary kernels. So by definition they aren't Linux, even if technically the largest parts of their codebase are taken from the Linux source tree. (Yes, all Android phones technically violate the GPL; in spirit if not in letter of the law. Unfortunately that ship sailed long, long ago.)
        worthless-trash 2y ago
        Wrong assumption, License is not the same as code base. Violating a license doesn't stop something being what it is.

Pay to win games and other in app purchase monstrosities? I’m not saying iPhones are any better. It came out in the Epic trial that 90% of Apple’s App Store revenue comes from games

forrestthewoods 2y ago

I do not consider Android synonymous with Linux. YMMV.

worthless-trash 2y ago
The uname -a will disagree.
- immibis 2y ago
  oh then Internet Explorer is Mozilla because of the User-Agent string
  - worthless-trash 2y ago
    Your analogy is faulty because one is lying about its origin of source.
- forrestthewoods 2y ago
  Username remarkably relevant. Clever troll account. Well played.
lucianbr 2y ago
> I obviously do have other Linux devices, including an Android phone – so personally I’d really love for it to take over in that market too. Linus Torvalds. But what does he know, eh?
- otabdeveloper4 2y ago
  Most likely he doesn't know, as he isn't a phone OEM. In reality pretty much no Android phone runs a stock upstream Linux. They all have horrible proprietary modified kernels. So no, Android isn't even Linux in the narrow technical sense of the kernel it runs. (The Android userland, of course, is an entirely different OS that has nothing at all whatsoever to do with Linux or any other flavor of UNIX, current or historical.)
  - worthless-trash 2y ago
    At what % would it no longer be Linux ? What happens when they backport fixes from upstream for certain problems ?
    - otabdeveloper4 2y ago
      > At what % would it no longer be Linux ? Wrong question. Android phones run proprietary kernels. So by definition they aren't Linux, even if technically the largest parts of their codebase are taken from the Linux source tree. (Yes, all Android phones technically violate the GPL; in spirit if not in letter of the law. Unfortunately that ship sailed long, long ago.)
      - worthless-trash 2y ago
        Wrong assumption, License is not the same as code base. Violating a license doesn't stop something being what it is.