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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by AnthonyMouse on Thursday June 09, 2016 @12:16PM (#11870342)
> And OSX now is by far the most popular workstation Unix.

That's kind of cheating though. OS X is a "workstation OS" but it's also a "desktop OS" used by millions of elementary school teachers and news reporters. So then the "workstation OS" gets to claim those people as users, but their main competition in that market is Microsoft Windows, which OS X loses the popularity contest to in the same way that OS X (including iOS) loses to Linux (including Android).

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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by unethical_ban on Thursday June 09, 2016 @02:04PM (#11871136)
Workstation = desktop when comparing to server.
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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by AnthonyMouse on Thursday June 09, 2016 @03:16PM (#11871604)
That's what I'm saying. Apple don't have 90% of the workstation market if you include Windows PCs in the same market, but they also don't have 90% of the workstation market if you don't include Mac users who don't care anything about Unix because they only run Firefox and MS Office.
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