| ▲ | sedatk 4 hours ago |
| Reportedly, current desktop OS marketshare[1] is: - 66% Windows - 18% MacOS - 3% Linux Right now, I can't try out Orion as one of the 66%. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide... |
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| ▲ | chrisweekly 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| A large % of desktop Windows installations are on employer-owned/managed hardware. And the % of users who are interested in trying newer alternate browsers and/or care about privacy also skews heavily away from Windows. So it might be more rational than it first seems. |
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| ▲ | sedatk 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > A large % of desktop Windows installations are on employer-owned/managed hardware What's a "large %"? > And the % of users who are interested in trying newer alternate browsers and/or care about privacy also skews heavily away from Windows I mean, enterprise users wouldn't try anything new of course, but I don't see the relevance to Windows. Would enterprise Mac users be any more inclined to try new things? |
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| ▲ | zero0529 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I mean they say in the article that the have started on the windows version and are aiming for late 2026 |
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| ▲ | sedatk 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I know, the prioritization just looks counter-intuitive to me, especially if you make money primarily from subscribers. | | |
| ▲ | 0_gravitas 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well, paying money for consumer apps/services (besides games) has always seemed a bit more normalized in the iOS ecosystem, and I imagine it must be a _somewhat_ simpler interface than the lovecruftian monolith of windows-N saying this as a Linux user, I've never owned an apple device in my life (nor do I want to) | | |
| ▲ | sedatk an hour ago | parent [-] | | AFAIK, you can't pay for Kagi in Apple ecosystem. Users of both platforms have to visit their web page. |
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| ▲ | microtonal 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| So? Companies are free to choose their markets. For a long time there were a lot of shops that only focused on the Mac. |
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| ▲ | sedatk 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sure, but Kagi isn't a Mac shop; their only source of revenue is subscriptions. Majority of their desktop customers must be Windows users too. So, their prioritization just looks strange to me. |
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