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Because they made all the mistakes that anyone trying to bootstrap a indie mobile OS tends to make. Someone should take the "here's why your antispam plan won'
by toyg 3y ago
Because they made all the mistakes that anyone trying to bootstrap a indie mobile OS tends to make.
Someone should take the "here's why your antispam plan won't work" form, and turn it into "here's why your non-Google/Apple mobile OS will never get traction".
- jwells89 3y agoThose mistakes chiefly being starting at the low end and not doing anything to make the platform particularly more interesting than what was already out there. Users don’t talk about budget devices and developers don’t talk about mediocre platforms, and so the positive dev-user feedback loop needed to kickstart a platform never materialized. I think a third totally new platform could be established even today, but it’s going to take smart planning and flawless execution to make happen.
- Turskarama 3y agoMobile OS's have the worst case of the chicken and egg problem. Nobody will buy a device with your OS unless there's apps for it, and nobody will make apps for it unless there's users. How do you solve this problem? Mozilla is too small to do it, and even Microsoft has seemingly given up.