Why did FOSS smartphone OS never take off?

>>58936452
because Mozilla is a shitty company full of shitty devs, just use Android Open Source Project

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>>58936452
>just use Android Open Source Project
um, ok?

>>58936452
Because the vast majority of smartphone users don't give a fuck about FOSS' philosophy and there's already AOSP, why fragmentize things?

because freetard neckbeards are incapable of writing cohesive software

And also the Jews keep getting their slimy paws in open source projects and fucking them over

see SailfishOS

>>58936452
It released on really shit hardware in an already saturated market.

No whatsapp was unforgivable

>>58940817
Literally this.

/thread.

>>58936452
Every day, I wake up and wish Firefox OS did take off.

Not because I like it. Fuck no. But because it gave the retarded half of Mozilla's employees something to do. Now everyone's back working on Firefox, doing such revolutionary things as destroying the extension ecosystem.

So much of the tech industry hasn't learned the lesson yet: stop saying "it's gonna be great."

It's either great already or it's not worth selling. Sorry if that's not compatible with the FOSS philosophy but hardware is a business.

I think Mozilla will eventually revisit it after reworking Gecko. Mozilla is probably putting it off in favor of Firefox

>>58936452
Android is too big

>>58943630
4u

>>58940817
>>58942615
Exactly. It's over.

>>58936452
the little budget it had was cut

>>58936452
The market was already sealed up at that point. Even Windows Phone barely "survived."