willing to adopt an open standard they’re not in control of
yet
Make no mistake, they will certainly try to capture the standard under their exclusive influence, just like Google has done with everything web related.
willing to adopt an open standard they’re not in control of
yet
Make no mistake, they will certainly try to capture the standard under their exclusive influence, just like Google has done with everything web related.
You should remember that there’s a lot of numbers between 0 and 1.4 billion - say, 100 million.
Why would they not pad their numbers if they cannot meaningfully be held accountable?
If padding with X users is projected to generate the most profit, then they are going to do just that.
“Temporary” in corpo-speak means permanent if it generates profit and there-were-some-technical-issues if it doesn’t, so this is just Felon Muskrat testing the waters.
In this particular case, you could say that the real unicorns were the human users.
I’d dare to say people don’t choose Windows, it is forced on them by having it preinstalled and that seals the deal for most. Your average Joe Sixpack would likely not even notice they are using Linux, since most just browse the internet and the major browsers are the same for both.
Just to note, Tillitis (the company behind this) was spawned by Mullvad: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-creates-a-hardware-company