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Re:Firefox OS devices officially released by aaronharder on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @09:48AM (#6012607)
One big difference from WebOS is that the company behind FirefoxOS will not likely abandon it within 12 months of kicking it off. 4th or 5th place in the market might represent enough scale to be considered a "success" as far as Mozilla is concerned.
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Re:Firefox OS devices officially released by happycube on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @02:48PM (#6014459)
The phones are also being built by multiple large ODM's, and not just one company that's barely staying afloat (Palm) or a company suffering at the time from a horrible CEO (HP)...
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Re:Firefox OS devices officially released by pjmlp on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @10:04AM (#6012684)
Those devices still need to be built. So a 4th or 5th place might not generate enough revenue to pay them.
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Re:Firefox OS devices officially released by Yoric on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @10:15AM (#6012740)
I'm not a manufacturer, but at a guess, I'd say that 4th/5th place is still plenty of billions of dollars.
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Re:Firefox OS devices officially released by pjmlp on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @11:09AM (#6013039)
That depends on the shareholders.
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Re:Firefox OS devices officially released by rhelmer on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @11:32PM (#6017298)
Which shareholders are you referring to?
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Re:Firefox OS devices officially released by pjmlp on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @03:54AM (#6018041)
From the manufacturing companies.

Even if it the profit is big, it might not be big enough compared with whatever else they might producing instead.

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