Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browsers back [pdf]

Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by notriddle on Monday September 26, 2022 @08:50PM (#32990494)

Are you sure it doesn't have something to do with Microsoft holding 80% of the desktop market at the time, while Apple only has 50% of the smartphone market now?

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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by dylan604 on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @12:43AM (#32991620)

At 50%, do you start fudging numbers to ensure you go no higher? "No, Senator, we are not the majority of users, so we can't be a monopoly." Or maybe that's too immoral, so start funding the other(s) to prop them up? Microsoft propped up Apple to ensure there were other consumer OS makers with Apple being the most viable* competitor.

*viable is doing a lot of heavy lifting as they did need that propping up

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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by notriddle on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:57AM (#32991945)

> At 50%, do you start fudging numbers to ensure you go no higher?

I get why you wouldn't want to trust Apple's self-reported numbers, but why would Wikimedia [1] also report Android as being more popular than iOS? What do they get out of it?

[1]: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit...

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