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Firefox OS: Go away fanbois, fandroids - you won't understand

Posted by Ridcully on · 2 comments
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The Western world's smartphone market has devolved into a duopoly of Apple's iOS and Google's Android. In the rest of the world, however, the mobile story has yet to be written... and this is where Mozilla hopes users will embrace its mobile operating system, Firefox OS. The browser-maker wants Firefox OS to be the gateway drug to the wider Mozilla software platform for the web's next billion users.

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notbob ·
I'm sorry, but after reading the article twice and even doing a page text search, I could find neither hide nor hair of the term "shell". So, apparently it's jes the same game with a different name. The distribution scheme may be better, but it's still a proprietary gadget of no practical use to someone looking for a true linux smart-phone or whatever it eventually devolves into. :(.
gus3 ·
So don't buy one. It's that simple.

BTW, the "shell" is the embedded browser. Each screen is merely a different browser page. That includes the dialer.

But you're still free not to buy one.

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