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The only path to FirefoxOS success would have been if someone like Samsung hitched their wagon to it. Which would have been because they thought they could mak
by ethbr1 3y ago
The only path to FirefoxOS success would have been if someone like Samsung hitched their wagon to it.
Which would have been because they thought they could make more money using it than Android.
Which probably wouldn't have bode well for user-friendly changes to the base image.
Android's value prop to manufacturers was "Was to sell a lot of mobile phones, but not have to pay for most of the development? And get a working Maps solution? Here you go." Which Google could afford to torch money on.
- fabrice_d 3y agoI think you're wrong but we'll never know :) What is true is that some of the interest from carriers for alternative OSes was indeed that they didn't like to be handcuffed to Android and iOS.
- ethbr1 3y agoAre we using carrier and manufacturer differently? And I'd imagine carriers don't, as they'd no doubt love to go back to the feature-phone days, but they're all (individually) too weak to do anything about it. Only aggregated can they offer the resources to support an alternative.