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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by jsight on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:20AM (#12590256)
Can you imagine what it would be like if every Linux distribution tried to build a competitor to Linux instead of a competitor to other distributions? That would be a hard problem even in the relatively small Unix desktop space.

That is how hard the problem was to solve for Mozilla OS. They were essentially building a competing OS when they could have just been building a competing distribution.

Android (AOSP) + Firefox + Firefox Market + Firefox Mail could have been amazing.

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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by lazaroclapp on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @06:07PM (#12593633)
That's what Amazon went for, with very limited success (that said, not really targeting privacy conscious users or free software enthusiasts, so outcomes might not apply)
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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by remir on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @07:51PM (#12594315)
Going against Android and iOS was a mistake. Even Microsoft, with all their resources, is struggling to stay relevant in mobile.

Firefox OS should have competed against Chrome OS instead. Partner with some OEMs and you have a great alternative to Chromebooks.

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