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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by rasz_pl on Friday March 13, 2015 @02:40PM (#9199028)
>GNU/Linux is ~2% of the market.

but Android/Linux is ~50%, and Windows/IE on a phone is 2%.

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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by adventured on Friday March 13, 2015 @02:50PM (#9199116)
I don't know where the confusion is coming from in this thread. I'm not sure if I should keep clarifying or not at this point.

The parent is talking about developers, and arguing that IE's biggest problem is that it's not cross-platform, and that it needs to be on Mac OS and GNU/Linux because far more developers use those now vs Windows.

My question is: is that true, that IE's biggest problem is the need to be on Mac OS and Linux (emphasis that we're not talking about iOS and Android); and is it true that far more developers (and particularly those relevant to this) are on non-Windows platforms now vs on Windows.

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