KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System

Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System by beeflaw on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:05PM (#16461752)

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...

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Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System by johndoe90 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @10:24PM (#16462842)

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.

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Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System by cwyers on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:58PM (#16461982)

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.

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Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System by thescriptkiddie on Monday February 26, 2018 @12:01AM (#16463245)

My first Android phone only had 192 MB of RAM.

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Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System by beeflaw on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:24AM (#16466428)

Funny story, so did mine. It was a nightmare. That was almost a decade ago. If you want an experience as bad on modern Android, you need 512MB ram.

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