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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by mike_hearn on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:15AM (#34707541)
You're making statements about how people think in general, but most of the world isn't iPhone land.
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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by pas on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:22AM (#34707614)
Most of it perfectly applies to the Android universe too.

And the US device market is still the trendsetter, which is basically Appleistan.

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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by mike_hearn on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:13AM (#34720690)
Apple is only about half the US mobile market, and the rest of the world the trend is clearly Android. So calling the US market the trend setter seems odd because if that were the case then the rest of the world would be trending strongly iOS but this pattern has been stable for years.
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Re:Browsers are essential and how operating systems are hold... by pas on Thursday February 09, 2023 @06:56AM (#34722648)
I mean with regards to the sideload-lockdown, ApplePay-or-nothing, privacy-CSAM-detection trade offs.

Apple is the premium brand, the Goliath in the market, especially considering revenue and profit.

Even if there are many Android phones they are of various brands, and Alphabet/Google is not rocking the boat, F-Droid works relatively okay.

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