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While the FirefoxOS brand didn't survive, the technology itself took off as KaiOS and is more popular that iOS in many markets. It just took a Chinese company w
by ewzimm 2y ago
While the FirefoxOS brand didn't survive, the technology itself took off as KaiOS and is more popular that iOS in many markets. It just took a Chinese company with some TCL money to manage distribution successfully.
https://www.kaiostech.com https://www.kaiostech.com
- gjsman-1000 2y agoKaiOS is actually dead now; and the market share is now irrelevant - even WhatsApp has shut down their app on the platform, and the App Store is no longer working. Completely cannibalized by cheap Android.
- ewzimm 2y agoWow, you're right, last update was in 2022. I still see a lot of devices in use though. I guess the OS updates don't matter too much. Didn't know about the app store. I guess most people I've seen using them just use the preinstalled apps anyway. The last time I used one someone asked me to sideload something, and adb worked fine for it. The website was at least updated recently.
- pabs3 2y agoThere was a fork of KaiOS called GerdaOS, not sure how active it is: https://web.archive.org/web/20231216111510/https://gerda.tech/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231216111510/https://gerda.tec... https://archive.luxferre.top/gerdaos https://archive.luxferre.top/gerdaos