On 28/11/13 05:23 PM, an wrote: > why did Mozilla choose getting involved with geeksphone/zte/etc. for > dedicated not_working/unavailable phones instead of bringing this OS > to maturity on existing hardware; call that a generic OS which is > easily ported to available phones that people actually have instead > of making them buy new "developer devices" which suck one way or > another. Cyanogenmod was ported to countless devices...
The problem is that in the hand of users, it has to be a device. A device is hardware + software, tightly coupled. Attention. By tightly coupled I do NOT mean locked in, but more designed to work very well together in an optimal way. This include aspects like the number of button, etc. This is probably the choice that prevails, and CyanogenMod doesn't have that quality: it is after market. Also keep in mind that in most markets where FirefoxOS is being sold, users don't have PC, therefore doing something that needs installation like that doesn't really work. So while one can eventually install FirefoxOS on a phone that is supported (for development purpose), I believe it is not the goal in itself for a wide adoption. Hub _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
