Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France.

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    8 months ago

    Ease of use. Your average grandma is more likely to understand how to use “the apple” instead of “the droid”.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t think that’s true. Old people are struggling with every phone OS. My mom has an Android phone and nothing really seems more difficult on it than on the iPhone I have to use for work.

      It’s just that there are differences, but saying that iOS is so much easier doesn’t seem true to me.

      Just look at how difficult it is to move an app from one app to another file on iOS. I might be stupid but I’m always struggling with that😅

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        8 months ago

        I’ve worked in tech support for a long time and personally I also struggle with using Apple devices because of how ass backwards everything is on an Apple device as compared to everything else.

        But in my experience the people who don’t understand what file is are more comfortable on Apple devices. It’s by design.

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      8 months ago

      All the elderly people in my family use Android… and they never complained about it. So what gives? I bet that if I’d give them an iPhone they’d be very annoyed and won’t understand how it works.