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The long tail of mobile OSes doesn't exist. Just look at the comments on any FirefoxOS thread -- lots of voices saying "why bother" since the top two are so hea
by mmastrac 11y ago
The long tail of mobile OSes doesn't exist. Just look at the comments on any FirefoxOS thread -- lots of voices saying "why bother" since the top two are so heavily entrenched and the #3 is barely moving the needle.
We do have alternatives, but nobody is using them.
- hackuser 11y ago> Just look at the comments on any FirefoxOS thread -- lots of voices saying "why bother" since the top two are so heavily entrenched I've noticed that too. Imagine if Torvalds, GNU, or the Mozilla team (to name just a few) responded that way. However, it's possible that they faced just as many naysayers.
- mmastrac 11y agoExactly. The same people who balk at running alternative OSes on a phone would be running Linux Mint on the desktop. I'd love to see more open competition on mobile, but it's a tough market to crack.
- gue5t 11y agoFxOS uses an Android kernel: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Platform/Gonk https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...