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Re:Goodbye Mozilla by ethbro on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @01:09PM (#14655959)
What would a manufacturer making first-tier hardware have gotten from partnering with Mozilla?

The most likely I'd see there would have been a "Certified for reflashing" platform.

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Re:Goodbye Mozilla by tajen on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @02:09PM (#14656669)
"We're an open platform, unlike an Android"? "We don't rat you to the CIA, unlike Android"? "Our apps are all-js"? I wonder whether Mozilla could have not partnered at all and targeted a stock Android phone?
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Re:Goodbye Mozilla by untog on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @02:29PM (#14656920)
None of those are selling points to customers, though (well, perhaps the CIA one, but even then, most don't care). A manufacturer wouldn't take on a Firefox phone for those reasons, it needed a compelling consumer selling point, and it didn't have one.
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Re:Goodbye Mozilla by scarface74 on Thursday June 29, 2017 @12:35AM (#14660806)
Ironic...

Andy Rubin

the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"

https://mobile.twitter.com/arubin/status/27808662429?lang=en

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Re:Goodbye Mozilla by flukus on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @08:09PM (#14659704)
> What would a manufacturer making first-tier hardware have gotten from partnering with Mozilla?

Product differentiation. Android is a crowded hardware market where everyone looks the same.

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