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I hope the ubuntu phone fulfills the promise that FirefoxOS had. FFOS was killed due to a spiral of very low spec hardware and no real third-party development.

I hope the ubuntu phone fulfills the promise that FirefoxOS had. FFOS was killed due to a spiral of very low spec hardware and no real third-party development. Being able to hack on the phone using scripts at a moment's notice is not something any phone currently provides.

rtpg 10y ago
I wonder if we could put FFOS on this phone. I still think the FF model of "everything is a web page" would lead to a pretty magical end goal, first set out by Smalltalk VMs. But I am not using a phone with a laggy keyboard.
- pjmlp 10y ago
  Smalltalk used "everything is native". As someone that used Smalltalk, HTML/CSS with JavaScript glue surely isn't what Smalltalk had for its GUI.
  - rtpg 10y ago
    Oh, did it? I thought it was in its own universe. Maybe I'm thinking of some other system (Scratch??).