Linux Phone Penetration by Region

potatopotato , 5 months ago

Why the popularity in Yemen? Weird laws or something?

philpo , 5 months ago

There were some really really cheap mobile phones made specifically for economically disadvantaged countries. India had a few as well.

Additionally Sanctions sometimes play a role - GApps don’t work everywhere.

CameronDev , 5 months ago

Bad statistics? When the percentages are that low, the polling rates are probably trash, and the error bars are probably huge.

kbal , 5 months ago

Weird that anyone would think statcounter could have numbers so precise as to make that meaningful. The (slightly) more interesting question is: Out of all the linux/android phones, how many of them have Google Play installed?

PuddingFeeling907 OP , 5 months ago

Here are some graphs to visualize https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/6d831c10-f702-4619-8bca-ed004203122b.pnghttps://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/a5092f87-dd86-4215-b6d7-cd0455af84ce.pnghttps://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b944818d-f54c-4b3a-9652-5de7f0437a85.png

F04118F , 5 months ago

I know what they mean, but: I run an immutable Linux distro on my phone that is maintained by Google. I’m sure more than 0.01% of Europe does the same.

I guess “FLOSS phone” doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Linux phone”

BautAufWasEuchAufbaut , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

But AOSP is open source? So that term wouldn’t improve on the problem.
I think GNU phones or GNU-like phones is a nice way to put it.

SomeBoyo , 5 months ago

AFAIK yes

banghida , 5 months ago

Android is not GNU/Linux

Auli , 5 months ago

Linux is a kernel and android uses the Linux kernel. So not it’s not Gnu/Linux but it is definitely Linux.

PlexSheep , 5 months ago

Yeah it’s Google/Linux