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> "FireFox OS has less processing and memory requirements, since the OS and the services live mostly in the cloud. For example, most of the apps written for Fir
by yeukhon 13y ago
> "FireFox OS has less processing and memory requirements, since the OS and the services live mostly in the cloud. For example, most of the apps written for Firefox OS are written in HTML5 and can be run within a mobile browser."
But then if you need to do very heavy computation, like photo editing, wouldn't that require good GPU? Can $25 provide that? Also consider running multiple webpages (try open tumblr on mobile) and multiple apps in the background. I haven't never owned FxOS but I honestly think this statement is for bare minimum flip-phone. If people have negative reviews for the one in the market (ZTE Open, for example), how could a $25 beat the $79 one?
- sirkneeland 13y agoOne possible alternative is to offload at least some of the photo editing computation to the cloud. That of course just leads to a different tradeoff of latency and (likely metered) data... so it may or may not make sense
- idlewan 13y agoI don't think you would do 'photoshop-style' heavy editing on mobile. Instagram-like filters or crops run fine and don't need that much. It won't add seconds to the processing if you use a low-grade $25 phone, it will probably just add something like a few milliseconds. The first sentence of the quote, however, is ridiculous. The OS doesn't "live mostly in the cloud". The OS and default apps are installed on the phone and don't need internet to run, they live on the phone. Web technologies != cloud. I guess you can't expect technical details to be right when you're talking to some non-technical guy ("Wayne Lam, senior analyst for consumer and communications at IHS").