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Even Microsoft - with countless more resources and motivation - failed to make traction in mobile. Blackberry was swept off the stage in the blink of an eye. F
by snomad 6y ago
Even Microsoft - with countless more resources and motivation - failed to make traction in mobile. Blackberry was swept off the stage in the blink of an eye.
Firefox OS was abandoned pretty quick as I remember, 2 years tops?
I would not single that out as a failing.
- josteink 6y ago> Even Microsoft - with countless more resources and motivation - failed to make traction in mobile. Microsoft made a new OS where they needed developers to target their platform. Too few did, and the platform failed. Mozilla tried to bypass this chicken-and-the-egg problem by being able to leverage PWAs which “everyone” is making anyway these days. It wasn’t a too crazy bet that it might have worked. In a similar vein the Pinephone is trying something similar these days: not asking developers to target it, but instead leverage existing app eco-systems (Linux and web). I don't expect a runaway mainstream success here, but I do wish them luck.