Comment 1615 for bug 1

Tablets and phones popular? They have less then 4% usage share which makes OS X more popular. And no they don't even have that because there are also SmartTV and a lot of other usages of Android included in those 4%.

> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:19:18 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share
>
> I believe Unity can be made faster and bugs fixed, such as the problem
> of Unity making Wine malfunction.
>
> In the "real world", Windows has the monopoly because too many apps and
> games have been developed only for Windows. Now that mobile devices and
> tablets are popular, Microsoft now have to compete for the first time in
> about 20 years! Unity is obviously being designed for tablets etc - but
> don't forget that users still have desktop computers with keyboards and
> mice. Some users will still rely on certain Windows apps and that's why
> Wine exists.
>
> In the real world, moving from Windows to Ubuntu is not a simple snap.
> There will be issues and I always recommend keeping a Windows
> installation around "just in case" you have something like a hardware
> device or critical program that can only run in Windows - I DON'T mean
> Windows in VirtualBox. In such cases, Ubuntu can be used for regular
> web browsing and so on, but the Windows computer can be used ONLY when
> needed.
>
> Finally, I wish Ubuntu would advertise with glossy marketing. That's
> how American companies like Apple become very successful. People buy
> iPads - NOT because they NEED them - but as a result clever MARKETING
> that makes people want iPads.
>
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> Title:
> Microsoft has a majority market share
>
> Status in Club Distro:
> Confirmed
> Status in Computer Science Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
> New
> Status in dylan.NET.Reflection:
> Invalid
> Status in dylan.NET:
> Invalid
> Status in EasyPeasy Overview:
> Invalid
> Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians:
> Invalid
> Status in JAK LINUX:
> Invalid
> Status in LibreOffice:
> In Progress
> Status in The Linux Kernel:
> New
> Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
> In Progress
> Status in The Linux OS Project:
> In Progress
> Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
> In Progress
> Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
> In Progress
> Status in Tabuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in A simple player to online TV streaming:
> Invalid
> Status in Tv-Player:
> New
> Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project:
> In Progress
> Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages:
> In Progress
> Status in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in The Jaunty Jackalope:
> Invalid
> Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty:
> Invalid
> Status in Arch Linux:
> New
> Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
> Invalid
> Status in “linux” package in Debian:
> In Progress
> Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS:
> Confirmed
> Status in openSUSE:
> In Progress
> Status in Tilix Linux:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
> This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.
>
> Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry,
> restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and
> limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full
> potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.
>
> Steps to repeat:
>
> 1. Visit a local PC store.
>
> What happens:
> 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
> 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.
>
> What should happen:
> 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
> 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
> 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.
>
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