Not the point of the article at all, but the annoying part of me feels compelled to point out a factual error:
Windows had dark mode long before copycats Android and iOS came on the scene with their implementations.
Windows Phone 7 had it back in 2010; dark was the default in part because it worked better for the displays in use at the time, and made the large bezels less noticeable.
Windows 10 launched with dark mode support in 2015. It was supported in the system shell, natively in UWP apps, and the setting was available to other apps through the Registry.
Dark mode support was even included on the Xbox One all the way back in 2013, although that is sort of cheating since they didn’t introduce light mode there until 2017.
Windows has had theming for the system UI (which could effectively be treated as a "dark mode") for ages - but the innovation of allowing apps (such as your web browser) to ask the OS for the user preference comes from (or at least was popularized by) mobile OSes.
That’s also not accurate. Browsers and apps have had the ability to ask for the system-defined light or dark mode since 2015. They simply chose not to until iOS could do it, so you’re right that the popularization came from mobile. Windows 10 was trying to be a mobile OS in 2015, so I suppose you might count dark/light theme support as a mobile innovation regardless.
Edit: the reason I mentioned it in the first place is that the author chose to lead the second paragraph of his article with a major factual error, and it’s worthwhile to have a clear understanding of the history. It’s like if I wrote an article about Jetpack Compose, and the second paragraph started with “Apple chose to follow the wildly successful trend of Android by coming out with the iPhone, and the success of Jetpack Compose by coming out with SwiftUI”. I’m disappointed that the only reaction to seeing that pointed out is for others to double down on the false assertions.
Windows had dark mode long before copycats Android and iOS came on the scene with their implementations.
Windows Phone 7 had it back in 2010; dark was the default in part because it worked better for the displays in use at the time, and made the large bezels less noticeable.
Windows 10 launched with dark mode support in 2015. It was supported in the system shell, natively in UWP apps, and the setting was available to other apps through the Registry.
Dark mode support was even included on the Xbox One all the way back in 2013, although that is sort of cheating since they didn’t introduce light mode there until 2017.