Android

You're crazy.

They're not saying it will. My gaming laptop is already running the same Linux kernel as Android phones so the kernel is great. Then it's down to the GUI and that might be a good fit for hospitality/healthcare/retail as the article says where some devices are already run in more or less of a Kiosk style with specific purpose. Besides phones are just small PCs anyway, it's all about the use-case.

Its an OS, period. Like in every other context it'll be adapted to its use case. Its unrealistic to think that its going to look like a phone/tablet. Android is and had been running on a hell of a lot more than phones for a very long time now, and most people dont even realize it.

I'll agree with you as an advanced user myself it most likely won't be for me either, but we're not the 99%. The normies benefit from more locked down ecosystems and especially immutable OS's.

I just spend 3hrs literally yesterday in my mothers OnePlus unfucking it, she's only had Androids since she's owned smartphones, yet cant understand Android and actually how to use it, never knows what she does, constantly turns things on and off, shit you CAN'T accidentally do. Non tech people and functionality/control over the OS is never a good thing.

somewhere tim cook is crying

Double biggest. Fail. Shoulda been tighter, that's just lazy. Everything after the emdash is pointless anyways, Google cut the title much earlier. Another fail.

It's clickbait, you got that right, but it's super sloppy.

from all the shit that windows do, long term support was always a selling factor in there

And don't forget that Google is pushing to restrict Android just like iOS where if you unlock the bootloader and root, SafetyNet fails and apps stop working, while in windows having admin accounts is normal.

why we don't see many Android tablets

My personal guess is that the reason is twofold:

1. The dominance of iPad
2. The (unfortunately not unearned) association of Android tablets with poor quality. There are a lot of knockoffs out there.

I think even Google (Alphabet) doesn't like Android that much and is trying to get away from it.

In the large format world, maybe. But they're putting a lot of development work into the Pixel line, and it's finally paying off. I wouldn't be terribly surprised to see a resurrection of the Pixel C form factor someday.

I'm gonna say it.

2023 is the year of the Linux desktop!

Declining? It might look like that if you expect nonstop continuous growth, but Lenovo has been stable and has held onto its 25% market share for the past five years.

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You clearly don't work in an office. They have that market cornered, Lenovo laptops are everywhere.

Lenovo is the biggest PC vendor in the world, also Motorola by Lenovo is still doing pretty well, I wouldn't call them declining by any means.

Man, I thought you had them confused with some other company, then I looked them up on Wikipedia. That's some shady stuff they've been up to.

Wait what, weren't the thinkpads supposed to go hand and hand with Linux, what do you mean?

It's also hard to overstate the advantage ChromeOS has that we can't even see yet. Chromebooks absolutely dominate the K12 educational world, and students are graduating every year and going into jobs where they're more familiar with ChromeOS than anything else. If enterprise customers switch in large scale to anything, it'll be to ChromeOS.

Retail and hospitality also means aiming at thin clients. Thin Client: barebone PCs whose entire function is to load a browser and connect to a server or service like Citrix to do anything of value.