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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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking of getting one of these when they were very cheap. I really wanted FF OS and other alternatives to succeed or at least exist, because Android was just never very good and I foresaw how Google is just gonna abuse its monopoly and make life difficult for everyone.

But Mozilla was like "now it's not the right time to introduce a mobile OS" - wtf, when if not exactly at the time when markets were still forming? It was now or never, and Mozilla threw in the towel so quickly it almost feels like someone got a nice paycheck from Google or something.

And while I never got that phone at the end, it did look like it had some decent basis and ideas in it that could've developed into something cool. Alas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What ever happened to the Ubuntu mobile OS?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Canonical stopped development and ubports took over