alt Hacker News> And just to add, I kind of mourn FirefoxOS.
Today, we have Mobian, postmarketOS, PureOS and many more GNU/Linux OSes for smartphones.
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prmoustache • last Tuesday at 11:00 PM
Back then Firefox was a brand with decent recognition.
> And just to add, I kind of mourn FirefoxOS.
Today, we have Mobian, postmarketOS, PureOS and many more GNU/Linux OSes for smartphones.
Back then Firefox was a brand with decent recognition.
It's too late.
If I want to interact with modern society, I have to use banking apps, the NHS app, WhatsApp, numerous IoT apps... The list is endless. Many of these will refuse to run on rooted phones.
Google and Apple won. We can learn from this and hope the next big thing to come along has some competition from the truly open source side of computing.