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1. Re: Bye Bye Firefox OS (2966710 .)


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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:12:07 +0000
From: "2966710 ." <us.redpumas@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Bye Bye Firefox OS
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I was looking at TVs the other day that had Firefox OS (think was
Panasonic (edit YEP)) where does that leave those products I wonder?

http://www.techradar.com/news/television/6-best-smart-tv-platforms-in-the-world-today-1120795/2

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/devices/tv/

Steve

On 10 December 2015 at 01:12, Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com> wrote:
> 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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