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Re:Librem 5 Phone Funded by rrix2 on Monday October 09, 2017 @09:50PM (#15438733)
> For example, if there was a device that focused on running progressive web apps well, there would be a market today than compared to the past when horsepower wasn't at the level it is at now.

How does that explain the failure of FirefoxOS?

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Re:Librem 5 Phone Funded by Brakenshire on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @09:21AM (#15441511)
PWA's weren't ready 2 years ago when FirefoxOS was being pushed, they're probably still not ready but there is major progress. It's mostly about scale and ecosystem now, development of well designed touch-friendly web components, iOS implementing Service Workers as is currently underway, and so on. That's not to say they can or will replace native apps, but there will be a growing overlap.
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Re:Librem 5 Phone Funded by fabrice_d on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @01:16AM (#15439534)
FirefoxOS lacked official support from key apps (eg. Whatsapp), and then lacked support from Mozilla leadership.

With today's PWAs it would be a wonderful OS.

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Re:Librem 5 Phone Funded by pjmlp on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @01:41AM (#15439638)
I keep seeing webapps failing since Nokia introduced Web Runtime for Symbian.....
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Re:Librem 5 Phone Funded by petecox on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @03:55AM (#15440093)
Chrome OS has proven the viability of an HTML5-based OS.

In Mozilla's case it was an inability to define a market more than the technology stack. I had a Flame. While the OS started a little rough around the edges, by Firefox OS 2.5 it was perfectly usable as a daily driver with modest specs by 2017 standards.

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Re:Librem 5 Phone Funded by pjmlp on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @04:16AM (#15440189)
Only in the US school system, because it isn't used anywhere else.

Even here, most people buy Chromebooks to replace ChromeOS with an usable version of GNU/Linux, just like we used to do with Windows 95/98 back in the day.

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