Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App

Re:Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App by Ygg2 on Monday August 12, 2013 @10:59AM (#6199542)

Missed my point entirely. Android was ridiculed claiming it will never reach feature parity with iOS (let alone surpass it), the same argument you used is pretty much same as iOS users when Android was initially released (compare Android 1.0 to iOS around that time).

Let's not jump on FFOS neck especially in lieu of recent news. If anything it's way more open than Android is.

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Re:Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App by shinratdr on Monday August 12, 2013 @11:02PM (#6203777)

> Android was ridiculed claiming it will never reach feature parity with iOS

Not really, Android was ridiculed for its severe lack of polish and poor performance. iOS lacked plenty of features, arguably Android 1.5 surpassed it in terms of a bullet list of features, the experience was just awful.

I saw your point just fine and my comment related to it directly. The part you're ignoring is the landscape surrounding those two events. There simply weren't established players in the smartphone market at the time that bothered innovating.

Currently, there are. That makes what FFOS is trying to achieve in their 1.0 and what Android was trying to achieve in their 1.0 completely different and nearly incomparable, which was my point.

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Re:Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App by Ygg2 on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @04:24PM (#6208047)

Isn't that the main complaint they have now? That the FFOS UI is slow and unpolished?

As for FFOS reaping the benefits of the ARM race, isn't that the same thing comparable to OSS developing due to MS hardware vendors race to bottom price and maximum performance?

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