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>My main hope in documenting all of this is that Firefox OS is remembered as more than just a footnote in tech history which says “a failed mobile OS from Mozil

>My main hope in documenting all of this is that Firefox OS is remembered as more than just a footnote in tech history which says “a failed mobile OS from Mozilla”. I got one of the Mozilla Flame phones back when they came out and loved that device. I'm pissed that now the only option for a viable open source mobile OS I have is Google. But unless there is some unlikely comeback, that is exactly what it will be remembered as. I disagree with some of the details of what they should have done better. But I do agree that it was too early to end the project and that it definitely had great potential in becomming a niche at least, from which it could grow.

pawadu 10y ago
> I'm pissed that now the only option for a viable open source mobile OS I have is Google. https://www.ubuntu.com/mobile https://www.ubuntu.com/mobile
- cwyers 10y ago
  Viable.
  - jldugger 10y ago
    Well, then you're mourning for that which never existed.
chappi42 10y ago
> I'm pissed that now the only option for a viable open source mobile OS I have is Google. https://jolla.com/ https://jolla.com/ There will even be a device... a Sony: http://www.xperiablog.net/2017/02/27/jollas-sailfish-os-is-officially-heading-to-sony-xperia-devices/ http://www.xperiablog.net/2017/02/27/jollas-sailfish-os-is-o... :-)
Apocryphon 10y ago
I don't know how it compares with the suggestions in the sibling posts, but Tizen?
bitmapbrother 10y ago
>I'm pissed that now the only option for a viable open source mobile OS I have is Google No one is forcing you to use Android and there are many alternatives. Additionally, there is no need to use Google services when setting up an Android phone. To be "pissed" that the only option you have is Google just reinforces my belief that Google should have closed sourced it from the beginning. The amount of entitlement some people think they have for an OS that is given away and costs millions to create is bizarre to me.

pawadu 10y ago

> I'm pissed that now the only option for a viable open source mobile OS I have is Google. https://www.ubuntu.com/mobile https://www.ubuntu.com/mobile

cwyers 10y ago
Viable.
- jldugger 10y ago
  Well, then you're mourning for that which never existed.

chappi42 10y ago

> I'm pissed that now the only option for a viable open source mobile OS I have is Google. https://jolla.com/ https://jolla.com/ There will even be a device... a Sony: http://www.xperiablog.net/2017/02/27/jollas-sailfish-os-is-officially-heading-to-sony-xperia-devices/ http://www.xperiablog.net/2017/02/27/jollas-sailfish-os-is-o... :-)

Apocryphon 10y ago

I don't know how it compares with the suggestions in the sibling posts, but Tizen?

bitmapbrother 10y ago

>I'm pissed that now the only option for a viable open source mobile OS I have is Google No one is forcing you to use Android and there are many alternatives. Additionally, there is no need to use Google services when setting up an Android phone. To be "pissed" that the only option you have is Google just reinforces my belief that Google should have closed sourced it from the beginning. The amount of entitlement some people think they have for an OS that is given away and costs millions to create is bizarre to me.