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>It is essentially a single-process OS, only the running app gets all the resources it needs.

Does the vast majority of people do more than one thing on their computer at a time?

As far as I'm concerned, Android not taking the desktop by storm (and ushering in the Year of the Linux Desktop) is because Google seemingly just isn't interested.

Windows is at its most vulnerable state in its entire history, and it's steadily losing ground to MacOS as things stand. Google and Android could absolutely wipe the desktop market if they could be convinced.

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> Does the vast majority of people do more than one thing on their computer at a time?

Absolutely. Just looking at my wife, an office worker. Even when not working with whichever of 5 huge Excel files she has open, she is talking on Teams while working in a permanently open Outlook. Add a variety of internal sites which she constantly peruses. She just cannot have each single application taking the whole screen at a time.

Even if we ignore that most people who work on PC use multiple applications at the same time, at least in my experience also most office workers use at least 2 displays, plus the in-built laptop screen. Not sure if Android can handle 3 screens with each showing at least 2 applications by average.

Currently visible for me are 9 applications on 3 screens. Sure, I could minimize or close some of them (Keepass is not that important all the time), but I appreciate the convenience of having a lot of space.

This is the quote from the post you're responding to:

> That sounds like shoehorning Android into a place it does not fit in. It is essentially a single-process OS, only the running app gets all the resources it needs...None of those things you'd want in a server OS.

That is obviously referring to _servers_.

> Does the vast majority of people do more than one thing on their computer at a time?

The vast majority of people are not running servers. In fact, I'd assume the majority of people do their computing on either iOS or Android.

Really the question of why "there no major push towards Android for Servers and Desktops?" is mixing two very different issues that should be discussed separately.

>Does the vast majority of people do more than one thing on their computer at a time?

Yes? A browser, chat client, and music player in addition to whatever program they use to do their job.

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