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.
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.
Edit 2: receipts, since I don’t feel like having to correct the record a third time: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EtXQVZ3iZWk