Re:Why Google and Apple act the way they do, working to snuf...
by esprehn on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @08:35PM
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As someone close to that situation, Firefox OS's failure had nothing to do with being web based beyond the fact that it was incompatible with the two dominant mobile platforms.
Ex. If you can't run the Android or iOS YouTube app, what you have left is the web one... which could be amazing, but is hardly a fully functional PWA because Google would rather you used the native app.
Firefox OS would have failed all the same had it been based on Qt, or even if it was based on Java without the Android runtime and SDK.
Ex. If you can't run the Android or iOS YouTube app, what you have left is the web one... which could be amazing, but is hardly a fully functional PWA because Google would rather you used the native app.
Firefox OS would have failed all the same had it been based on Qt, or even if it was based on Java without the Android runtime and SDK.