@rauschma Unlike computers, phone operating systems...

@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.

Like 15 April at 14:08 | Open on hachyderm.io

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Axel Rauschmayer

@thomasfuchs Mozilla providing those services (e.g. everything that Proton provides) could be a good fit and make them money.

15 April at 14:15 | Open on fosstodon.org

Max

@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.

15 April at 14:30 | Open on smeap.com

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