And the low marketshare does prevent people from using it. Because there are sites that only work if you use chrome and maybe safari, because Firefox marketshare isn't big enough to worry about. So users switch to chrome so those sites work, which decreases Firefox market share in a vicious cycle.
Linux does suffer from the issue of low market penetration, but it's always had a relatively low market share (and its actually getting better as of late).
Whereas firefox has been on a steady decline for nearly a decade due to incompetent management with conflicting goals, something that's unlikely to change anytime soon.
I can understand 2% for linux-based desktop OS, but 3.5% for a browser available on most major OS isn't great at all..
It depends a lot on the country. In Germany, Firefox' market share is larger since Firefox is viewed as the browser that takes the users' privacy concerns (e.g. tracking, DRM (there still exists Firefox EME-free), ..) most seriously.
According to
> https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/germ...
Firefox' market share is about 18.6 % among the desktop users in Germany, i.e. among the desktop browsers, Firefox has the 2nd largest market share in Germany (for all platforms: according to
> https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/germany
in Germany, Firefox' market share is currently about 10.4 %).
They even have ads on the subway here
Pretty sure that is where that Safari market share comes from.
What you write as a joke is in my opinion not one: when I consider the department hallway in the office where I work at (not tech sector), you will, I think, only find 2 iPhone owners among about 25 people. One of these iPhone owners is the boss, and the other one is a programmer who vocal about not liking Android.
So, depending on your surroundings, it is quite possible that seeing iPhones or iPhone owners is actually a somewhat rare event.
My understanding is that iPhone usage varies wildly between regions of the US. I know that when I go to some areas, I see them everywhere and in other areas, almost never.
You are wrong.
Just today, a colleague boasted that he recently bought a new Samsung Android phone and paid about 1500 euro for it (I guess he bought a Samsung Galaxy S24); this is likely more expensive than an iPhone.
But what I rather wanted to tell with my comment above is depending on your surroundings, it can be a very common situation that iPhone fans/users are a small minority.