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 @thomasfuchs Mozilla making an operating system for phones and, maybe, desktop computers (like Chrome OS) does make a lot of sense to me because we’d profit from having more alternatives. That could work if companies that make hardware for open source software (Fairphone, Librem, Framework, etc.) supported them. My (possibly wrong) impression was that they gave up relatively soon. But VR, crypto, and AI all seem like bad fits for Mozilla. 3 comments
@thomasfuchs Mozilla providing those services (e.g. everything that Proton provides) could be a good fit and make them money.  @rauschma @thomasfuchs A lot of the untapped but interesting potential of Firefox OS was how many of the services they tried to build like web standards or as could-be web standards and for general cross-platform access by a web browser. There were some interesting ideas they had that never got quite fully built. Hard to tell if that idealism was what lead to the huge budgets of the project or if patience would have been deeply rewarded. |
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@rauschma Unlike computers, phone operating systems compete on services they offer, for example iCloud on iOS; not on the OS itself which is essentially trivial and only for supporting the services.
Mozilla has none of these services.
This is why Microsoft failed as well, arguably even having some of the services and plenty of resources.