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It kind of sounds like Firefox OS is being put on the back burner like SeaMonkey and Thunderbird were in the days when they were still supported but clearly not
by bobajeff 11y ago
It kind of sounds like Firefox OS is being put on the back burner like SeaMonkey and Thunderbird were in the days when they were still supported but clearly not as important as Firefox.
So being created by a nonprofit organization didn't in fact save FFOS from having to achieve market success in order to keep it going.
At the very least users that bought a FFOS phone are to be without any kind of support ever appearing and at worst users of the code (Panasonic, H5OS and probably some Routers, HDMI Sticks, etc.) are becoming second class citizens which will lead to them lagging behind Firefox like Thunderbird and K-meleon have.
- reubenmorais 11y ago> At the very least users that bought a FFOS phone are to be without any kind of support ever appearing FWIW, support has always been the role of the people actually selling the product: the OEMs. Mozilla never did end-user support for Firefox OS devices, similar to how Google doesn't do support for Samsung phones.
- pjmlp 11y agoI love some of Mozilla products, but having seen the failure of packaged WebApps for Symbian from inside and how WebOS went, I never understood how could FFOS have any other future. Even ChromeOS is an US phenomenon, where the majority actually wipe it to install GNU/Linux over it.
- bobajeff 11y agoThe fundamental things hindering adoption of Firefox OS (and WebOS for that matter) had nothing to do with its platform being Web based. It didn't help when it came to reviews but even if it had been more like BlackBerry OS it would've faced the same adoption problems. Maybe going the route of Amazon's Fire OS could've worked for them assuming they could better compete with Google's Play Store than what Amazon is.