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A heavy fork of Android by Mozilla might be a better solution..
by dafrankenstein2 10y ago
A heavy fork of Android by Mozilla might be a better solution..
- johansch 10y agoYeah, sort of like that would have been a better for another once dominant company that couldn't handle the UX/performance: Nokia
- hajile 10y agoTake Elop out of the picture and they did just fine. He did everything he could to destroy Meego. They launched the n9 without marketing and only made it available in secondary markets, but people still beat down a path to get them. Elop also refused to provide sales numbers (instead writing the infamous "burning platform" email), but third party guesstimates are in the 4-8M (for comparison, the subsidized, heavily marketed, easily available S3 sold around 40M units in the same year). Elop even refused to launch the n950 (aluminum n9 with a great physical keyboard) despite it being ready to go (they shipped around 5K as developer units). Nokia had the answer. Elop was paid 25 Million to killed it.
- DrKabob 10y agoStarting with a fork of Android and then over time replacing parts with more Gecko/web-based alternatives could have been a neat strategy.