I remember lol-ing when Firefox came out with FirefoxOS ages ago. I thought, "why on earth do we want yet another phone when we've open source Android?". I'm sl

I remember lol-ing when Firefox came out with FirefoxOS ages ago. I thought, "why on earth do we want yet another phone when we've open source Android?". I'm slowly realizing that we've run out of choices now. Between the gluttonous Android, and kidney-demanding and walled garden of iOS, we don't have an alternative. And if the articles I'm reading are right, Apple is slowly eating all of Android's meals. Apps that you can't live without--be that because of $WORK requirements or other quality of life improving ones--they're available only for Android and iOS. Using such services via web is a no-go: "it's either our app or nothing". I can't park my car without installing their app. (The other alternative is to phone them up! What year is it now - 2020?!). I wish we built foundational mobile application ecosystem around web technologies [0]. That would have stripped down the phones' front-end and user-facing requiremnt to 'just be able to run web browser'. No bulky updates; no deprecations. In the normal course, the only thing that needs update/upgrade is the battery, every n years or so, n > 5. [0] with the provision to extend functionality via native plugins, of course -- like the Capacitor framework [1] does. [1] https://capacitorjs.com/ https://capacitorjs.com/