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Today's Topics:

1. Bye Bye Firefox OS (Sebastian)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 01:12:21 +0000
From: Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk, sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com
Subject: [bristol] Bye Bye Firefox OS
Message-ID: <5668D175.4030306@gmx.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed

Hi

I recently read:
http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/mozilla-exits-firefox-os-smartphone-business.html
Well I guess really Mozilla took the wrong approach to begin with, by
only targeting the developing world. However I do have a cheap Firefox
OS phone for about three to four months now, and I think it's quite
nice, that's the OS and the hardware. However Firefox OS is open source
and it won't just go bye bye it seems. Two months or so ago, I read
about a fork by former developers.

Personally I would like to see in the next few years Ubuntu Touch or
possibly Salifish OS what Jolla has, or something else possibly that's
Linux based that doesn't even exist yet possibly, being much more
popular and not just some niche OS for mobile. However is there any
chance of that really happening or not, what do you think? I think
Canonical has a very small chance at making Ubuntu Touch become much
more popular. That's after the convergence has been properly done for
example, and much more proper apps that lots of people actually want to
use are offered as native apps are available some how in the app store.
Or a Android apps compatibility layour is provided instead like Jolla's
Salifish OS and Samsungs Tizen. Then yes maybe after those things
Canonical will actually have a chance at making Ubuntu Touch become at
least sort of main stream like Firefox the web browser is these days.
Also when a network or two actually starts providing it on a contract to
all of there customers, that could then be the start of Ubuntu Touch
becoming more main stream, or if not at least less of a niche OS.
Apparently two networks will already try it out on a contract when its
time, but it's not known which pubically, but they are probably European
ones. Canonical is apparently going to start targeting general consumers
a bit more next year with Ubuntu Phones. Although even Microsoft with
all it's money has lots of issues in trying to make Windows Phone much
more popular, and Canonical will have much less of a chance at getting
Ubuntu Touch out into the real mobile market it seems. As for Jolla I
am currently waiting for a tablet with Salifish OS 2.0, and they have
had some recent company issues, but the Jolla Phone is also nice :). I
also have a feeling Jolla's goal isn't really to go main streame or sort
of, unlike Canonical's, but for a Linux based OS that actually uses the
BTFS file system and Wayland it's definitely an interesting one :).

Android is ok for what it is, and there are even some interesting OS's
based on it now. However wouldn't it be nice to have a proper Linux
based alternative being much more popular? Or doesn't it matter
really? What's your opinion and why I wonder? However it does seem to
me that generally what OS people run on a standard computer is much less
relevant now, since most users mainly use a smart phone and/or tablet
these days instead.

Regards

Sebastian



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