8 ms·

One big difference from WebOS is that the company behind FirefoxOS will not likely abandon it within 12 months of kicking it off. 4th or 5th place in the marke

One big difference from WebOS is that the company behind FirefoxOS will not likely abandon it within 12 months of kicking it off. 4th or 5th place in the market might represent enough scale to be considered a "success" as far as Mozilla is concerned.

pjmlp 13y ago
Those devices still need to be built. So a 4th or 5th place might not generate enough revenue to pay them.
- Yoric 13y ago
  I'm not a manufacturer, but at a guess, I'd say that 4th/5th place is still plenty of billions of dollars.
  - pjmlp 13y ago
    That depends on the shareholders.
    - rhelmer 13y ago
      Which shareholders are you referring to?
      - pjmlp 13y ago
        From the manufacturing companies. Even if it the profit is big, it might not be big enough compared with whatever else they might producing instead.
happycube 13y ago
The phones are also being built by multiple large ODM's, and not just one company that's barely staying afloat (Palm) or a company suffering at the time from a horrible CEO (HP)...