Matchstick and Mozilla Take On Google's Chromecast With $25 Firefox OS Dongle

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @04:06AM from the what-can-it-slurp dept.

An anonymous reader writes Matchstick and Mozilla today announced their open-source take on the Chromecast: a $25 Firefox OS-powered HDMI dongle. The streaming Internet and media stick will be available first through Kickstarter, in the hopes to drive down the price tag. Jack Chang, Matchstick General Manager in the US, described the device to me as "essentially an open Chromecast." He explained that while the MSRP is $25 (Google's Chromecast retails for $35), the Kickstarter campaign is offering a regular price of $18, and an early bird price of $12.

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no $12 deal for you by frovingslosh · 2014-09-30 04:40 · Score: 3, Insightful

It would have been nice if this had been posted before all of the $12 devices were spoken for. I went to the site as soon as this was posted but all 500 were taken.

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