Linux Phone Penetration by Region

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/16514606

  1. 🇾🇪 Yemen: 0.4%
  2. 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone: 0.18%
  3. 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: 0.16%
  4. 🇲🇼 Malawi: 0.16%
  5. 🇰🇵 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea): 0.13%
  6. 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 0.1%
  7. 🇬🇭 Ghana: 0.09%
  8. 🇰🇪 Kenya: 0.08%
  9. 🇬🇮 Gibraltar: 0.06%
  10. 🇬🇦 Gabon: 0.06%
  11. 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 0.05%
  12. 🇯🇪 Jersey: 0.04%
  13. 🇿🇲 Zambia: 0.04%
  14. 🇱🇷 Liberia: 0.04%
  15. 🇵🇱 Poland: 0.03%
  16. 🌍 Africa: 0.03%
  17. 🌍 North America: 0.02%
  18. 🇨🇮 Cote D’ivoire: 0.02%
  19. 🇧🇿 Belize: 0.02%
  20. 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso: 0.02%
  21. 🇮🇳 India: 0.02%
  22. 🇩🇪 Germany: 0.02%
  23. 🇨🇿 Czech Republic: 0.02%
  24. 🇬🇧 UK: 0.01%
  25. 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: 0.01%
  26. 🌍 Worldwide: 0.01%
  27. 🌍 Europe: 0.01%

Source: gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/…/worldwide

potatopotato,

Why the popularity in Yemen? Weird laws or something?

philpo,

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,

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

kbal,
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

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,
@PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca avatar

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,

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, (edited )
@BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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,

AFAIK yes

banghida,

Android is not GNU/Linux

Auli,

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

PlexSheep,
@PlexSheep@feddit.de avatar

Yeah it’s Google/Linux

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