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Yeah, no: I live in Argentina and nobody, NOBODY here is going to get a FirefoxOS phone. The deal with emerging markets is that people here still cares about pe
by JVIDEL 14y ago
Yeah, no: I live in Argentina and nobody, NOBODY here is going to get a FirefoxOS phone. The deal with emerging markets is that people here still cares about personal image which is the only reason why iPhones are still being sold despite being several times the price of Android phones due to import taxes. Couple that with Chinese Android phones that are getting better and cheaper every month and why would anyone get a phone that due to volume won't be cheaper and that will have only a fraction of the support?
UP's achilles heel is the lack of proprietary hardware, 99% of the users out there can't even root their phones let alone install a completely different OS on it. Couple that with the innability to run Android apps and the horrible UX that is unity and you have a package nobody wants.
Sailfish has no chance at all of growing beyond a very small niche of people. Tizen is basically Samsung's attempt at getting Google out of the picture now that is the biggest fish in the phone sea.
BB10 is a better option than most of these OS', even WebOS should be in this list and yet for some reason it was left aside.