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Re:KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly by cmroanirgo on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:58PM (#19753959)
> ...suddenly had NDAs and confidential code that partners insisted on. There was a large culture clash...

I was wondering why it failed when it had so much going for it. Tragic.

It makes you wonder the secrets that Google withhold...

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Re:KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly by fabrice_d on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:30PM (#19754092)
NDAs and confidential code were mostly to let chipset vendors ship closed source version of the telephony components, so they would not have to disclose their extensions to the RIL standard packets, the integration with a-gps, etc.

However there was an open source implementation (MozRil) that worked well enough.

FirefoxOS failed commercially because we could not get on board the content partner(s) that make or break a mass market Mobile OS.

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