Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
by cwyers on Sunday February 25, 2018 @05:45PM
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Competing with the Android/iOS duopoly was a war of attrition the Microsoft, Firefox, Canonical and Samsung (Tizen) all lost. If you don't have the resources that those companies do I have a hard time seeing how you survive, and I have no interest in investing in a platform that has an extremely high risk of being orphaned. I wish it was otherwise - earlier today I was lamenting that my Samsung Galaxy S7 is laggier and less responsive than the $100 unlocked Lumia I bought myself years ago was. But I don't see another platform succeeding here.
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Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
by beeflaw on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:05PM
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How do you define success? This is not a competitor to iOS/Android, it's for cheap low-end devices, which is still a sizable market. Try running Android on 256MB of RAM...
Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
by johndoe90 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @10:24PM
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I still have a ZTE Open C with me. It has 512MB of RAM and 2-core CPU.
It's been running on the Firefox OS quite slow. Having in mind a very poor functionality, I considered to switch to Android. When I installed Android, it was a total game changer. It was fast and smooth (back in 2014 of course, not now) and I never installed Firefox OS again.
Success: Enough market share to build a sustainable business so that it doesn't go away at some point.
And I know about Android's problems there (and mentioned it). But Windows Phone and FirefoxOS both chased those markets and they're both basically gone now.
Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
by thescriptkiddie on Monday February 26, 2018 @12:01AM
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My first Android phone only had 192 MB of RAM.