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by richdougherty 987 days ago
I'd love them to fund an Android variant or replacement for Android services. Mobile is the other main platform apart from web.
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gkoberger 987 days ago
They did, back in 2012ish. It was called FirefoxOS, and it wasn't well recieved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS
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wmf 987 days ago
IMO FirefoxOS wasn't well received partly because it wasn't Android-based. Ultimately I wouldn't try to do a mobile OS without ~$10B in marketing/ecosystem funding.
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richdougherty 980 days ago
Agreed, it needs to be Android based - the other option would be to implement iOS APIs, but Android would be a lot easier.

An analogy would be if you make a browser, to use standard HTML and HTTP, not try to invent your own thing.

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botanical 987 days ago
Its fork, KaiOS, is widely successful (but Proprietary). They should have stuck with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS

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wishfish 987 days ago
I'd love to see this too. Would love it if it was an OS that scaled well from desktop to mobile (at least tablet) sizes. I'm a big fan of the basic idea behind Chrome OS. Not so much a fan of giving Google my info. Would be nice to have a real alternative in this niche.
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