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I'll disagree. I think Mozilla realized the line between the browser and the OS is going to eventually fade to the point of irrelevance and made the smart decis

I'll disagree. I think Mozilla realized the line between the browser and the OS is going to eventually fade to the point of irrelevance and made the smart decision to invest effort into the only solution that makes sense longterm. If the goal isn't to be beholden to the big players then making your own OS is the only way forward for this kind of endeavor since Android is effectively Google anyway. Whether Mozilla has done a good job approaching that strategy or not is an entirely different matter.

parker_mountain 4y ago
> the smart decision to invest effort into the only solution that makes sense longterm I don't think it was smart at all. Building an OS is such a monumental challenge, and an embedded OS requires hardware support that an org the size of Mozilla was never going to be able to undertake. Anyone who had worked with embedded around the time of BTG immediately wrote it off, and it took a separate company taking tons of money (and relationships) from Google to even get anywhere. > Android is effectively Google anyway At least a super stripped down version of android would have had plug in compatibility with BSPs - which is Android's "hidden" strength.