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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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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.

> 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?

> "What's a large %?"

Perplexity says the share of US desktops managed by employers is estimated in the range of approximately 50-60%...

... and Enterprise Macs in the US represent close to 10% of commercial desktops and laptops.

My point stands.

I mean they say in the article that the have started on the windows version and are aiming for late 2026

I know, the prioritization just looks counter-intuitive to me, especially if you make money primarily from subscribers.

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)

AFAIK, you can't pay for Kagi in Apple ecosystem. Users of both platforms have to visit their web page.

Mac users pay for quality software. Linux users would never pay for anything. Windows users only pay for video games and corporate software if they're a corporation.

So that's why boutique software makers always focus on Mac first.

So? Companies are free to choose their markets. For a long time there were a lot of shops that only focused on the Mac.

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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