Re:Two Huge Companies Betting On Firefox OS
by voidr on Thursday January 09, 2014 @09:06AM
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> Developing an app for Firefox OS really is as simple as building an HTML5 web app.
Building a high quality HTML5 web app is hard and complicated.
> Despite its many benefits, there still just isn’t a whole lot of excitement for the Firefox OS. That may change though if LG, ZTE, or especially Panasonic can create compelling hardware to show off the open source software.
Despite what benefits? What does Firefox OS do better than everybody else? If Mozilla wants consumers to adopt it's OS, it should focus on features that actually matter to users, otherwise, it will be just a platform for vendor/carrier crapware.
Building a high quality HTML5 web app is hard and complicated.
> Despite its many benefits, there still just isn’t a whole lot of excitement for the Firefox OS. That may change though if LG, ZTE, or especially Panasonic can create compelling hardware to show off the open source software.
Despite what benefits? What does Firefox OS do better than everybody else? If Mozilla wants consumers to adopt it's OS, it should focus on features that actually matter to users, otherwise, it will be just a platform for vendor/carrier crapware.