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Agreed. It seems like a great way to turn your web browser into an abstraction of an operating system.
by martzy13 5y ago
Agreed. It seems like a great way to turn your web browser into an abstraction of an operating system.
- em-bee 5y agobut this is what apple originally intended, just phones weren't powerful enough at the time. later firefoxOS did exactly that. and it worked well. its only weak part was the lack of apps in the market.
- snuxoll 5y agoCries in Palm webOS. I still miss my Palm Pre - shame HP killed Palm.
- diskzero 5y agoHas too much time passed for FirefoxOS to become viable again? The latest moves by Apple seems to be changing public sentiment .
- commoner 5y agoKaiOS was forked from Firefox OS, and it's currently installed on over 150 million devices, mostly in India. Unfortunately, it's closed source. https://www.engadget.com/2019-02-26-kaios-third-mobile-operating-system.html https://www.engadget.com/2019-02-26-kaios-third-mobile-opera... https://www.fastcompany.com/90457544/kaios-most-innovative-companies-2020 https://www.fastcompany.com/90457544/kaios-most-innovative-c...
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- sidlls 5y agoThat’s more or less where browsers are (or are heading rapidly). It’s dumb and terrible and has all sorts of issues: but it’s also cheap and easy, and often that’s good enough.