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FirefoxOS lacked official support from key apps (eg. Whatsapp), and then lacked support from Mozilla leadership. With today's PWAs it would be a wonderful OS.
by fabrice_d 9y ago
FirefoxOS lacked official support from key apps (eg. Whatsapp), and then lacked support from Mozilla leadership.
With today's PWAs it would be a wonderful OS.
- pjmlp 9y agoI keep seeing webapps failing since Nokia introduced Web Runtime for Symbian.....
- petecox 9y agoChrome OS has proven the viability of an HTML5-based OS. In Mozilla's case it was an inability to define a market more than the technology stack. I had a Flame. While the OS started a little rough around the edges, by Firefox OS 2.5 it was perfectly usable as a daily driver with modest specs by 2017 standards.
- pjmlp 9y agoOnly in the US school system, because it isn't used anywhere else. Even here, most people buy Chromebooks to replace ChromeOS with an usable version of GNU/Linux, just like we used to do with Windows 95/98 back in the day.