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Re:Sony jumps on the Mozilla bandwagon, will launch Firefox ... by stcredzero on Monday February 25, 2013 @07:28PM (#5282944)
If they could have curated the best of the Android experience, they could have come up with a compelling, differentiated product.
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Re:Sony jumps on the Mozilla bandwagon, will launch Firefox ... by cpeterso on Monday February 25, 2013 @08:00PM (#5283109)
A good example is Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets. Amazon has a curated Android experience (and even avoids using the term "Android"). Of course, Amazon has lots of media content to pair with their Kindle Fire ecosystem that Nokia would not have.
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Re:Sony jumps on the Mozilla bandwagon, will launch Firefox ... by fpgeek on Monday February 25, 2013 @09:19PM (#5283460)
I think Nokia could have built a good-enough content ecosystem. Nokia had a decent music service in many countries. I've even bought from them (for a song that wasn't available in the US stores I normally use). Finding a partner for books wouldn't have been hard. Kobo would probably have jumped at it, among others. Video would have been hardest, but Google was also struggling with video back then so it wouldn't have been a relative disadvantage.
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