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Linux Browser Marketshare Strikes Above 3%

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 03 2017, @01:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the almost-a-drop-in-the-bucket dept.

mrpg writes:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-3p-Browser-Market-Share

According to Net Applications' Netmarketshare, the Linux market share on the desktop as judged by browser interactions may now be above 3%.

The company is reporting a 3.37% Linux marketshare for August 2017, a rise from 2.53% a month prior and the first time they have reported the Linux desktop marketshare above 3%.

They report Windows meanwhile at 90.7%, macOS at 5.94%, and the other operating systems statistically at zero. Their monthly report can be found here.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @05:32PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @05:32PM (#563186)

    When Microsoft did it, it was a problem because MS bundled their browser with the OS and forced OEMs to not install an alternative. Nowadays Chrome (at least the Windows version) has its market share because people are actually choosing to use it. Also Chrome is cross platform, whereas IE is/was Windows only.

    It is a little concerning that they have so much market share, but there is no sign of the market share being abused to lock-in customers to their platform, so not the same as when Microsoft was in that situation.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @06:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @06:27PM (#563197)

    No sign if you follow the example of this story and focus on the desktop, perhaps. Android is dominant on mobiles. I lost the link to the article that explains that, if a manufacturer wants to include one of Google's apps, it must ship them all. Some other concerns over Google's dominance:

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/23/how-google-controls-androids-open-source [theguardian.com]
    https://www.cheatsheet.com/gear-style/with-android-does-google-have-a-monopoly.html/?a=viewall [cheatsheet.com]