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Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat

Posted by Unknown on from the foxes-are-friendlier-than-androids dept.

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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  1. Firefox OS is great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But it needs a web browser. Does it run Chrome?

  2. Re:Why? by Delarth799 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your mind is just not properly optimized to receive the slashvertisement in this article correctly. Please step over to the tuning station to receive full mental optimization.

  3. Re:Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat by BasilBrush · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat. Also, 2014 will be the year of Linux on the desktop.

  4. Re:Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat by ynp7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't you get the memo? With the announcement of SteamOS, the "Year of the Linux Desktop" has been moved to 2015 (Valve Time, so maybe 2016 or 2017). Of course the "desktop" has also been moved to the livingroom, so plan accordingly.

  5. Re: they see me trollin... they hatin' by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reminds me of my favorite UNIX joke:

    Emacs would be great operating system if someone just wrote a decent text editor for it.