Apple has the highest market cap in the fuckin' world because it's too much of a hassle for most people to bother leaving their ecosystem that's designed to keep you in their walled garden. You can go to Android, but everything's a little different and you have to learn the quirks, and yes, that's a bridge too far for a seriously significant amount of people.
Shieet, man, 100 years ago you'd be calling people retards for looking at Esperanto and saying "lol I'm not learning that shit". There's just no tangible, clear-cut benefit. It never caught on. Linux won't catch on for home use until there's enough benefit for laptops to start commonly shipping with them as opposed to Windows. In a world where average people find the jump from iOS to Android is a bridge too far, how the hell do you think an OS where you're expected to know how to compile from source from the get go is supposed to catch on? How much free time and willpower to relearn something do you think the entire rest of the planet has?
Oh shit, I almost completely forgot about Esperanto!
I vaguely remember all the progressive faggots 10-15 years ago trying to push this as some sort of revolutionary easy to use new language that anyone can pick up and we would all be speaking it in no time! As if it was some sort of trial run for the globohomo push. All it sounded like to me was some kind of SJW virtue signaling while trying to sound cultured and intelligent.... and coming across as if they were speaking with down's syndrome.
And as far as the back and forth between Android and iOS, in the end they both are heavily tweaked Linux distros anyway. Well, Linux-like UNIX in iOS' case. In the mobile device market, a cumbersome and tedious OS is counterproductive, a lesson that Microsoft had to learn the hard way. The difference there, and my argument, and I think probably many others when it comes to the Windows vs Linux back and forth, is compatibility and ease of use. There are Office, Excel, Adobe, and various other proprietary software that "don't work with Linux" that you can get off of an Android app store right now, that work just fine with the Linux-based android operating systems. The difference between those and the PC versions is that the software developers realize that there is potential for growth and success in a market where roughly 70% of the smart phone market is android based vs somewhere in the 5% of home computers run some sort of Linux based OS, with unknown compatibility issues with common hardware and software.
Like I said before, when one type of operation system has ~75% of the PC market, of course the vast majority of software will be designed to work with it natively. And as someone else said, despite their walled garden and Locked-Down-For-Tards design philosophy, the slick integration of all of the Apple devices and how they can interface together almost flawlessly is clever. Despite the very limited cross-compatibility between Apple and Android systems, both are successful. And they're both large enough players in the market that the Android vs. Apple battle is a constant meme. A couple hundred basement dwellers sperging about their Very Special
Linux distro that's "Just like Windows, but better!" and "so simple that your 80 year old grandma can figure it out in 20 seconds, while hacking the CIA!", meanwhile their dirty secret is that you can't run industry standard software like Office or Excel without WINE or a VM. And some stuff just plain wont work, or arbitrarily crashes for no reason.
