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i'll say it again [1] by focusing on old, cheap and slow hardware, they're losing out on 3rd-party dev talent that would be interested to run FxOS on more mode
by leeoniya 12y ago
i'll say it again [1]
by focusing on old, cheap and slow hardware, they're losing out on 3rd-party dev talent that would be interested to run FxOS on more modern hardware and letting the optimization for old devices trickle down later. i would love to easily run it on my BeagleBone Black and contribute apps i make back to their market.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8433121 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8433121
- edent 12y agoCool! Please can you buy me one of those expensive computers so I can start now? Here the thing, if you start focusing on the cutting edge, that's where development tends to stay. By starting with limited resources, it means that the software becomes more powerful as hardware gets cheaper.
- justin66 12y ago> by focusing on old, cheap and slow hardware, they're losing out on 3rd-party dev talent that would be interested to run FxOS on more modern hardware and letting the optimization for old devices trickle down later. By focusing on old, cheap, and slow hardware they ensure that the optimization will happen at all.
- throwawayaway 12y agoah just like how trickle down economics works? if they had it on beaglebone black the whole world would ask "who the hell owns one of those".