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Re:Mozilla Announces Deal to Bring Firefox Reality to HTC VI... by earthscienceman on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:54PM (#18861007)
While you're correct in your assessment, and I hope this comes to fruition, this same paragraph could have been written about Firefox OS. That said, I'm not a detractor, I wish Firefox OS had also worked out. And I'm certainly very glad that Mozilla is still willing to approach new ideas and markets, even after getting burnt.
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Re:Mozilla Announces Deal to Bring Firefox Reality to HTC VI... by derf_ on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @08:20PM (#18861491)
The Firefox Reality team is much smaller than the FirefoxOS team was (i.e., by more than an order of magnitude).
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Re:Mozilla Announces Deal to Bring Firefox Reality to HTC VI... by fabrice_d on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @07:32PM (#18861234)
The FirefoxOS legacy is alive in KaiOS which has 50M+ users now and is growing. Indeed a very poor decision from Mozilla's leadership to kill the effort too soon.
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Re:Mozilla Announces Deal to Bring Firefox Reality to HTC VI... by kdf83 on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:17PM (#18861981)
I have KaiOS on a Nokia phone that I intended to use for email and 4g hotspot. I didn't expect much but it literally a POS, super slow, impossible to customize (i.e. hotspot quick launch), and no apps in the marketplace. It would be more usable with a pre symbian OS in my opinion. People that rave about KaiOS I figure are like that those that endless recommend SICP or 'Clean Code' as the book of gods and probably never read it.
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