I don't think OEMs will leave this feature on on many phones -- many of the phones contain SIM locks and other customization bits, and they have the business incentive (or, requirement from their partners) to prevent people from removing them in day one.
How are we going to do with those phones? On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Ben Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Fabrice Desré <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> One piece is to provide an *easy* way to change the update channel. > > > This definitely seems like the right solution for Gecko updates, and for > updates to Gaia apps which absolutely have to be certified. One use case is > providing an alternative release channel for security updates for devices > considered end of life by their manufacturers. But another use case is > providing a pre-release update channel for users to try out pre-release > versions of Firefox OS like they can with the Nightly, Aurora and Beta > Firefox release channels in order to contribute to the project by testing. > We should at a minimum be able to do this for the upcoming reference device. > >> Another annoyance is that we still can't update gaia apps without doing >> a full update. That's pretty ridiculous to not be able to upgrade >> productivity and media apps for instance. That is blocked on some APIs >> being only available to certified apps. > > > We've discussed this before and I would really like to see as many as > possible of the Gaia apps move into the Firefox Marketplace so that they can > be updated independently of the OS like any other app. > > Perhaps a good place to start would be to list the APIs that are forcing > each Gaia app to be a "certified" app, and look at which of those APIs we > could feasibly start to transition to being available to privileged apps, or > the web. > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > -- Tim Guan-tin Chien, Engineering Manager and Front-end Lead, Firefox OS, Mozilla Corp. (Taiwan) _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
