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Today 10 years ago I got a Firefox OS phone (jemmy.jeena.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jeena@jemmy.jeena.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] meiti@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.org 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] K0bin@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] root@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wish something like that would come back.

[–] bill_1992@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Same, having competitors to Android and iOS would be great.