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The interesting takeaway here is: maybe Mozilla gave up on Firefox OS too early? It apparently found a market after all, albeit as a fork.
by the_duke 7y ago
The interesting takeaway here is: maybe Mozilla gave up on Firefox OS too early?
It apparently found a market after all, albeit as a fork.
- captn3m0 7y agoTurns out people wanting a touchscreen want a much smarter OS. If Firefox OS was adaptive for non-touch devices - who knows?
- srbby 7y agoMozilla took the slowest HTML rendering engine there is and created a whole OS using it. Then they proceeded to run it on the worst mobile hardware there was at the time. Then competent engineers forked it into KaiOS and it became a success.
- BrendanEich 7y agoSame engineers in notable cases, e.g., Fabrice Desre. Also same engine. This refutes your first sentence above.
- war1025 7y agoIf I remember correctly, Brenden Eich was a big proponent of Firefox OS, and it died shortly after they pushed him out.