Microsoft's Linux Kernel

Re:Microsoft's Linux Kernel by meruru on Saturday June 29, 2019 @02:51AM (#20311168)

One contributing factor to that statistic it that the phone lifecycle is a lot shorter than the desktop/laptop lifecycle. Also desktops and laptops are more likely to be shared between family members. The point is people still have access to and use traditional computers.

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Re:Microsoft's Linux Kernel by hrktb on Saturday June 29, 2019 @03:05AM (#20311215)

While this must be true for a sizeable part of the population, more and more people also don’t ever touch a desktop/laptop or only use the one at work.

Unsurprisingly, the latter case gets truer for low computer litteracy adults for who investing in a decent smartphone has a better ROI than buying a meh phone with a cheap laptop.

Anecdotally we bought our aging parents each an ipad two years ago.

They were decent but not that proficient at Windows, but got comfortable very fast at viewing/saving photos, printing, email/messaging and browsing on the ipad.

From there they gave up on their budget “my carrier gave it for free” phone to move to the iphone Xr and started doing all of the above on their phones most of the time. The laptop is now a third rank device they use to check their savings once a month.

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Re:Microsoft's Linux Kernel by meruru on Saturday June 29, 2019 @03:24AM (#20311283)

In your anecdote, your parents weren't really using their PC before they got the iPad. I think this is true of a lot of people who are smartphone-only today. Android and iOS are expanding to a market that PCs never really got to.

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Re:Microsoft's Linux Kernel by hrktb on Saturday June 29, 2019 @05:42AM (#20311672)

They were using their PC. But begrudginly, getting annoyed by the updates, virus warnings, us perstering them to switch browsers etc.

For most of their lifes PC were the only way to do some tasks, including photo management (and we were sharing them tons and tons of photo, they also filled SD card fter SD cards in the summer), and it’s only recently (basically the ipad Pro) that looking at us they though they could give it a try.

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Re:Microsoft's Linux Kernel by craftyguy on Saturday June 29, 2019 @12:08PM (#20313321)

> While this must be true for a sizeable part of the population, more and more people also don’t ever touch a desktop/laptop or only use the one at work.

I have a hard time believing this, do you have any studies to back this up?

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