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Re:Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla by kjkjadksj on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:39PM (#35791325)
Its amazing how consistently poor safari adoption has been.
Re:Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla by eli on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:54PM (#35791566)
It doesn't really run at all on Windows, the most popular desktop operating system by a huge margin.
Re:Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla by fafzv on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:54PM (#35791567)
Safari only runs on Apple hardware and the world at large is poor. Like really, really poor.

Safari has 34.6% share in the US: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/united-s...

Re:Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla by capitainenemo on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @02:20PM (#35791969)
I was surprised that was still 22.4% even after narrowing down to desktop US https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/unit...

I didn't realise Macs were a quarter of the desktop market.

Re:Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla by tracker1 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:26PM (#35793664)
I'm not that surprised... They're not just trendy, but hardware wise pretty nice in terms of quality, appearance and battery life. I don't use it much, but my M1 Air that I got for personal use generally makes it through a week of use on road trips without needing to recharge. Hour or two of email/reading a day, about 60% brightness.

I think MacOS feels a bit old at this point, but the hardware is pretty nice for what's on offer in the mobile space. I may well go framework for my next laptop in a few years though.

Re:Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla by JenrHywy on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @10:39PM (#35797091)
I just bought my first Mac in ~30 years, having been all Windows or Linux in that period. I've been blown away by now nice it is - both the hardware and MacOS. Sure, there are some annoyances for a "power user" where something like showing hidden files requires an obscure key combo, but for the most part it has been a refreshing change.

It's also just blazingly fast compared to the similarly priced ~3yo Dell that it replaced.

Re:Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla by derefr on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @03:15PM (#35792694)
Would be interesting to calculate a global "number of e-commerce dollars spent per browser."
Re:Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla by paulddraper on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @02:18PM (#35791943)
When you're the only browser that can't run on the world's most popular desktop OS or mobile OS...

You're just not going to be a strong contender for market share.