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		dehrmann 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company A nearby comment repeated the quote "the browser is the OS." The OS game is over. Desktop computing is becoming a professionals-only thing. We can talk about pros and cons of Windows, MacOS, and Linux, but it's a shrinking market without room for a fourth player.

niutech 7 months ago [–]

OS is not only desktop. There is also mobile OS, like KaiOS, which is the 3rd most popular phone OS.

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