Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
by grumpyprole on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:57PM
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You must have installed some niche piece of software that the vast majority of iPhone users will never use or hear about. Hopefully the indie dev keeps updating it and Apple never pulls it from the store!
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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
by tigershark on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:27PM
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In what world VLC is “some niche piece of software that the vast majority of iPhone users will never use or hear about”?
You REALLY never heard of VLC?
Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
by grumpyprole on Sunday April 24, 2022 @02:36AM
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VLC and free open source software certainly won't offer "just works". If you are happy to go down this path, then Android will offer more free open source apps for you.
Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
by Handytinge on Monday May 02, 2022 @01:12AM
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It seems more likely that the majority of iOS users (and likely Android users too) just don't care.
I would be shocked if > 20% of Android users manage their own music library rather than using one of the standard music streaming services.
You've picked on iOS (incorrectly) for not being able to playback FLAC, then shifted argument. The point was proven that you don't need to buy into Apples ecosystem for this.