Today 10 years ago I went to Poland to buy a Phone with pre installed #Firefox OS on. The Phone was a Alcatel One, so very shitty. Two years later I installed Firefox OS on my Nexus 5 instead.

It was a very good concept, but sadly rolled out on too shitty hardware so it never caught on.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I wish so much that there was a solid Linux phone that was just as viable as any android-based device.

    There are some options, but nothing that just works.

  • meiti@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Imo that’s what caused Firefox to lose market share to Chrome. They focused too much on Firefox OS and deprioritized browser development. In one example, it took them a long time to implement FIDO when it was already functional in Chrome.

    • djsaskdja@endlesstalk.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Considering how dominant the mobile OS has become, this wasn’t a terrible gamble. Like they lost and it looks bad in hindsight, but you can’t blame them for trying. If it had succeeded, we’d be living in a very different world of technology right now.

  • rowie324@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    i really hope these alt-mobile OS’s take off, i know theres things like pinephone and kde mobile but they’re still a little bit rough around the edges last i checked… at the same time tho maybe i should do some more digging around. i imagine someone’s made a daily-driveable alternate OS for phones at this point

  • K0bin@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I never understood why they targetted low end hardware with a tech stack that’s notoriously slow (web).

    • matlag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The N9 was killed by Stephen Elop, the new CEO coming straight from Microsoft with a mission: get Nokia bought off by MS.

      Right from the start, he ran an explicit counter-advertisement campaign against the N9 and Meego. Whatever commercial success it would be, this would be the first and last device running MeeGo from Nokia, and there would be no support for MeeGo.

      Nokia was to embrace Windows mobile OS, that turned out to be a total disaster. But indeed, after he tanked Nokia, it became cheap enough to bought by MS, as Nokia got both cheap and undsirable by any other big player due to its binding to MS bad mobile OS, and Elop got his VP status back there.

      This is a shame in the history of mobile phones and OS!

      Later, some former Nokia would start their own phone company reusing part of MeeGo. Jolla was born.