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What would a manufacturer making first-tier hardware have gotten from partnering with Mozilla? The most likely I'd see there would have been a "Certified for r

• tajen 9y ago
  "We're an open platform, unlike an Android"? "We don't rat you to the CIA, unlike Android"? "Our apps are all-js"? I wonder whether Mozilla could have not partnered at all and targeted a stock Android phone?
  • untog 9y ago
    None of those are selling points to customers, though (well, perhaps the CIA one, but even then, most don't care). A manufacturer wouldn't take on a Firefox phone for those reasons, it needed a compelling consumer selling point, and it didn't have one.
  • scarface74 9y ago
    Ironic... Andy Rubin the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make" https://mobile.twitter.com/arubin/status/27808662429?lang=en https://mobile.twitter.com/arubin/status/27808662429?lang=en
• flukus 9y ago
  > What would a manufacturer making first-tier hardware have gotten from partnering with Mozilla? Product differentiation. Android is a crowded hardware market where everyone looks the same.