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Today 10 years ago I got a Firefox OS phone (jemmy.jeena.net)

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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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[-] K0bin@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Pyrrhichios@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

This was exactly my (dumb, layman) view of things - great idea hobbled from the outset by the marriage of slow web apps with slower hardware.

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

To keep it affordable?

[-] K0bin@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Then use something more efficient than the web stack. In the end, Android ran better on the same devices and had better software support.

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