Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat

mattydread23 writes with an opinion piece naming a few reasons Firefox OS is likely to succeed "It's geared toward low-powered hardware in a way that Google doesn't care as much about with Android, it's cheap enough for the pre-paid phones that are much more common than post-paid in developing countries, and most important, there are still 3.5 billion people in the world who have feature phones and for whom this will be an amazing upgrade." I'd push greater commitment to keeping the essential components of the system under FOSS licenses onto the head of that list.

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Re:How is this cheap?

[narcc]

What's the advantage of the FFOS phone over the cheap Android phones?

Isn't it obvious? It doesn't run Android!