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Firefox OS: Disruptive By Aiming Low
judgecorp writes "As Apple launches a new slightly-improved iPhone 5, Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich says if you want a really disruptive phone you should look to Firefox OS. It's a low-cost low-end device — and that's the point. It uses standards so should be resistant to patent infringement suits, it will fit on featurephone-grade hardware, and it will run HTML5 apps without the restriction of native apps in an app store. In other words, it's aiming for the next 2 billion smartphone users, people who can't afford the iPhone/Android model." Reader rawkes has some (very warm) thoughts about Firefox OS, too, which helpfully includes both screenshots and a video demo.
No not a troll. As it is I can't block some software updates on my Android. I can downgrade them back but the software keeps upgrading itself on that hideous Google Play monstrosity that is Marketplace reborn. But if it were a Firefox phone I'd expect to get forced updates every day to everything, apps that broke every new version, and features removed at the whim of Mozilla or whenever THEY decide a security breach means I can't use the software anymore. Oh and the version number would look like a poker machine counter from Las Vegas. This based on my experience with the Firefox browsers which has COMPELTELY GONE OFF THE RAILS since about 3.5.
FUCK OFF. DO NOT WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everywhere else in the world, they do not, and have to pay for their own damn hardware
And i care about them in the slightest, why?
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