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Re:Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 i... by orf on Saturday April 06, 2019 @09:24AM (#19590596)
Was Firefox OS targetting this kind of phone though? I thought it was trying to be a touch-screen smartphone OS.
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Re:Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 i... by jeswin on Saturday April 06, 2019 @09:32AM (#19590632)
Wasn't really, although their focus was on low cost phones too. Credit to KaiOS for recognizing the potential of non-touch devices.

However, the effort required to enable a non-touch UI would have been a small fraction of the overall FirefoxOS effort. Something Mozilla could have responded to, if the team was intact.

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Re:Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 i... by fzzzy on Saturday April 06, 2019 @09:43AM (#19590683)
The non-touch concept was under development when firefox os was cancelled.
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Re:Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 i... by jeswin on Saturday April 06, 2019 @09:52AM (#19590711)
Yup. FFOS actually convinced me that even high-end devices built on open web technologies could work quite well enough for today's usecases. I'd buy one today if I could - not a low end device but a Snapdragon 8xx device.

Web is good enough for 90% of apps, and a bare metal SDK would be needed for games.

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Re:Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 i... by pjmlp on Saturday April 06, 2019 @10:14AM (#19590816)
PWAs did it for me.

Even WebGL 2.0 alongside WebAssembly will be good enough for Flash like games (Google Chrome team will give a talk about WebGPU at IO).

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