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Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before by nardi on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @07:14PM (#7941298)
How has no one mentioned mobile? Smartphones/tablets? You know, the largest segment of general computation devices?
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Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before by azdle on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @07:29PM (#7941365)
> How has no one mentioned mobile?

Because Linux does dominate mobile? Android is Linux and iOS is a *nux. (iOS is a BSD derivative.)

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Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before by pjc50 on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @06:54AM (#7943194)
Mobile is interesting, because while the kernel is theoretically GPL you can't normally replace it with your own kernel without using a security exploit against your own device to get root. And almost all the userland is closed as well. It's far harder to run a properly Free operating system on a phone that nominally already runs Linux than it is to install Linux on a PC shipped with Windows.

On mobile, Linux is a thin shim of Free software in a proprietary stack.

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Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before by JoshTheGeek on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:04PM (#7941484)
BSD isn't Linux. Android uses the Linux kernel, but not iOS. I'm not sure which dominates, though
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Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before by barbs on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:37PM (#7941585)
In numbers, I'm pretty sure Android dominated (can't remember the exact numbers but Google should reveal them for you).

In revenue (app-sales etc) iOS dominates.

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Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before by shmerl on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @09:07PM (#7941689)
> In revenue (app-sales etc) iOS dominates.

Who made such research? I'm not sure if it's even possible to know exactly, unless all vendors who run their own stores publish sales statistics.

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Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before by TheSoftwareGuy on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @10:45PM (#7941979)
>unless all vendors who run their own stores publish sales statistics.

They do, thats one of those things that companies that are traded publicly are required to do.

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Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before by nl on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @06:34AM (#7943129)
That's untrue.

Publicly traded companies are required to disclose revenue, but not required to break it down by source.

Neither Apple or Google break out the revenue from the *Stores (unless they have started doing it very recently). There are third party analytics firms that provide reasonable estimates though[1].

[1] eg http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/23/google-play-quarterly-app-r...

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Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before by shmerl on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @02:54AM (#7942613)
Are all companies which have such stores traded publicly? I don't see a direct connection between these two aspects. For instance, in China there are various Android markets and I'm not sure all of them belong to publicly traded companies.
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Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before by gamegoblin on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @07:26PM (#7941352)
Android is based on the Linux kernel at least.
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