I think of a “mobile device” as a phone, tablet, and smartwatch, but those latter two categories are dwarfed by the market for phones, so I think they can be ignored. Laptops are dominated by Windows and macOS (BSD/Unix descendant, not Linux), so that can also be ignored.
A few sites of questionable reputation put the global market share of iOS at around 30%, but let’s suppose it’s only 20%. In order for 99% of all mobile devices to be Linux-based, then only 1% of the total could be an iOS device, and roughly another 4% of the total is every other (presumably) Linux-based phone. That leaves 95% of the “mobile device” market for non-phone devices, which seems unrealistic, even accounting for industrial and commercial devices.
I suppose, the meme incorrectly regards iOS and iPadOS as Linux due to their unix descent and thus close relation to Linux. (Or simply because they do not know that difference)
Android is just as much linux. Sure it has some additional patches. Saying it isn’t linux would be the same as saying linux with Plasma or Gnome is not linux because it isn’t on a server. The user interface is just different and they block root.
Android at the very least still uses the same Linux kernel, albeit modified. Apple‘s XNU kernel is an entirely different thing, being originally based on a modified BSD kernel, unlike Linux, which was written from scratch.
I think of a “mobile device” as a phone, tablet, and smartwatch, but those latter two categories are dwarfed by the market for phones, so I think they can be ignored. Laptops are dominated by Windows and macOS (BSD/Unix descendant, not Linux), so that can also be ignored. A few sites of questionable reputation put the global market share of iOS at around 30%, but let’s suppose it’s only 20%. In order for 99% of all mobile devices to be Linux-based, then only 1% of the total could be an iOS device, and roughly another 4% of the total is every other (presumably) Linux-based phone. That leaves 95% of the “mobile device” market for non-phone devices, which seems unrealistic, even accounting for industrial and commercial devices.
I suppose, the meme incorrectly regards iOS and iPadOS as Linux due to their unix descent and thus close relation to Linux. (Or simply because they do not know that difference)
Linuxians tend to do that.
But when you point out Linux and Mac are based upon UNIX and thus by their logic are UNIX, they flip their shit.
Android is so heavily modified, it isn’t Linux anymore.
Android is just as much linux. Sure it has some additional patches. Saying it isn’t linux would be the same as saying linux with Plasma or Gnome is not linux because it isn’t on a server. The user interface is just different and they block root.
Android at the very least still uses the same Linux kernel, albeit modified. Apple‘s XNU kernel is an entirely different thing, being originally based on a modified BSD kernel, unlike Linux, which was written from scratch.