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Re:PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder by zepto on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @05:43PM (#26573340)
If that’s true, it means almost nobody pays for any software on Android.

The fact a lot of people download free apps is pretty much meaningless.

You may as well say a lot of people visit websites on Android.

Re:PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder by entropicdrifter on Thursday March 25, 2021 @12:28PM (#26582248)
So, in your mind, the world's most active software ecosystem is failing because it doesn't extract as much capital as a system set up as a premium product ecosystem targeted at the world's elites? Interesting take.

By the same logic, you could argue that Linux is failing relative to both OS X and Windows in the server market because it's not making as much money.

Re:PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder by zepto on Thursday March 25, 2021 @01:57PM (#26583336)
> So, in your mind, the world's most active software ecosystem

It’s not the world’s most active software ecosystem. The web is.

> is failing because it doesn't extract as much capital

It is failing as a business.

> as a system set up as a premium product ecosystem targeted at the world's elites?

If you consider most American teenagers to be ‘the world’s elites’, then ok.

> By the same logic, you could argue that Linux is failing relative to both OS X and Windows in the server market because it's not making as much money.

Only if it were true, but it isn’t.