Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
by bitmapbrother on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:32PM
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>If Mozilla had simply acquired LineageOS
Why would they need to acquire LineageOS when they can just fork it for free?
>worked on MicroG to reach feature parity with Play Services
That would have been a TOS violation and would have been instantly shut down by Google.
>their own app store
You can't really compete with the Play store and developers wouldn't bother with it.
>they would have had significant success at very little cost.
No they wouldn't have. It would have reached the same outcome as their Android based FireFox OS did and even faster due to the TOS violations your suggesting.
Why would they need to acquire LineageOS when they can just fork it for free?
>worked on MicroG to reach feature parity with Play Services
That would have been a TOS violation and would have been instantly shut down by Google.
>their own app store
You can't really compete with the Play store and developers wouldn't bother with it.
>they would have had significant success at very little cost.
No they wouldn't have. It would have reached the same outcome as their Android based FireFox OS did and even faster due to the TOS violations your suggesting.