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.

  • @K0bin@feddit.deEnglish
    26•1 year ago

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

    • @Pyrrhichios@feddit.ukEnglish
      6•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.

      • @K0bin@feddit.deEnglish
        9•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.