"Sayonara" (さよなら), Microsoft
11 days ago we mentioned how Windows had fallen below iOS in some countries. We're seeing it in Japan and based on recent trends, or perhaps extrapolating a little, as early as this summer statCounter may see more Web requests in Japan coming from iPhone than all Windows-running PCs combined. It looks like this at the moment:
A few months ago we saw GNU/Linux gaining a lot and we revisited the matter earlier this month.
Japan has several of its own BSD and GNU/Linux distros. With tariffs from a so-called (former) "ally", will influential politicians run into Free software's arms? Or ARM? Engineering and Windows are sort of paradoxical irrespective of the context. █