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by prmoustache 1463 days ago
But is it?

I don't think iphone market shares are large enough to make a company like tumblr die.

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Yes they are. iPhones make up over half of all smartphones in America.
Globally it is less than 20%.
Do you want to be the person who has to explain why your userbase just dropped 20% because you didn't want to ban porn? If Apple says you want to ban something, it's getting banned. "Globally" is also not a good metric here, since the vast majority of tumblr users came from english speaking countries.
You’re right. Better to just ban porn and lose 100% of the user base.
In the local galactic supercluster it might be less than 0.1%, but Tumblr happens to be predominantly used in the US, and that's what matters to their business.
Weighted by ad revenue, it’s closer to 50%.
Yes, the 20% that has all the money.
Nobody cares about that though. US is where all tech happens.
> I don't think

You can think what you like but they literally did so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯