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AndrewFelix ππ΄ββ οΈ π΅πΈ
@lzg Imagine a timeline where you could download apps direct from a website
HowToPhil (Phillip R)
@andrewfelix @lzg Might be possible in modern times with a rooted KaiOS (which I am led to believe is a fork of B2G OS, which is a fork of Firefox OS...)
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@howtophil @lzg Yep. But without widespread adoption there aren't going to be many devs going to the trouble of creating a release for a third platform.
HowToPhil (Phillip R)
@andrewfelix Oddly, Gen-Z etc are using more and more KaiOS "feature phones" each year
Halla Rempt
@lzg Ah, firefox os was pretty good. So was WebOS, Ubuntu's mobile OS, Plasma Mobile (which I worked on) -- and even WeTab wasn't too bad. And then, years afterwards, Librem brought out Librem 5 and there had been _no progress at all_ since those days. It was a slow, buggy mess running on a heavy, hot brick. If it were not for the fire risk, the one true purpose of the Librem 5 was to be a used as a feet-warming bed pan in cold winter nights.
Gaffe
@lzg I think mine was a much earlier model and it was awful. IIRC it didn't have enough RAM to upgrade to the latest version of FFOS released before the project shut down. Obsolete the moment I took it out of the box, practically. I really, really wanted to love it but it was horrible... it was the ZTE Open I think?
Brett Edmond Carlock
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Enalys :enalys:
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Max "Max Sweaty" Eddy
@lzg I have one of the weird slider phones, I didn't know there were candybar-style ones released!
Tom Lee-Gough
@lzg I had a Geeksphone Keon, developers editon. I ran it as a daily driver in 2012. It was not ready for a daily drive... |
@lzg The future we could have had... π’