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> One of the big misses from Firefox was being so late to Android. Was 2011 "so late"? It was already there when Android 4 came out, still before Android gaine
by seba_dos1 2y ago
> One of the big misses from Firefox was being so late to Android.
Was 2011 "so late"? It was already there when Android 4 came out, still before Android gained a really significant market share (15%, same as Blackberry and half as much as Symbian at the time). Two years before that there were versions for Maemo too (which was much easier to port to), and Android versions used the same codebase at the time.
- Macha 2y agoWhat country's market share are you looking at? Figures I found for global share are Android 48%, iOS 20%, Symbian 16%, Blackberry 10% (https://mobiforge.com/research-analysis/2011-handset-and-smartphone-sales-statistics-worldwide-big-picture https://mobiforge.com/research-analysis/2011-handset-and-sma...) which matches my memory of that time much better.
- seba_dos1 2y agoGlobal. Your data is about sales, not usage. https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-share-held-by-mobile-operating-systems-since-2009/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha... For context, the first stable release of Firefox for Android was made just a few months after Nokia N8 release.