Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
by fabrice_d on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:36PM
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Open secret: FirefoxOS "failed" because it could not get a few super popular services in the targeted markets to write apps for it. It's very hard to break the chicken and egg issue without that support when bootstrapping a new mobile OS.
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Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
by ocdtrekkie on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:53PM
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This is what I truly hope PWAs can solve. If they are 'good enough', they will bridge the gap for new platforms until they're popular enough for companies to develop for directly.
Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
by eadmund on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:51AM
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The problem is that a web app can never be good enough, because a web app can never be secure. I simply can't trust my private data to a PWA, because the developer can ship me malicious JavaScript at any time. With open source I can compile and audit code myself (or rely on others to do so for me); with an app store I can rely on a vendor to audit code; with a web app I have no assurance.