Just going to throw this out there for a bit of vision. Imagine FFOS or some permeation of it running on your router, IOT devices and TV. Updates straight from Mozilla or the community. Secure free software that you can trust on the smart devices that will become ubiquitous in your house.
I think the phone market is just too locked down to carve out a niche. Apple did it through UI/Hardware design and Google did it by giving the carriers free reign on their OS. Unless there is some massive advancement on the open hardware front, there's no way proper free software projects can be anything more than a niche on the phone. There's a couple of areas that could be considered: The home router is still one of the areas where free software should dominate but instead we're stuck in this weird middle ground where the majority of routers are running some old crunky version of Linux, long abandoned by the manufacturer. Maybe a great GUI on top of a Linux Kernel could be a basis for a great router OS. Add some features for robust "cloud" streaming/storage. I'd buy that. Sort of meeting point between FreeNAS/DD-WRT with a great modern customizable GUI. Could also link up with a "Matchstick" style stick in the back of your TV and could link with the router storage stuff and be sent content from the Firefox browser. The Chromecast but done right. All secure, tightly integrated and in direct partnership with hardware manufactures who aren’t bothered about controlling the software themselves. Just a couple of ideas. Not sure if they represent true gaps in the market. Sorry for the essay. Anyone have any other ideas? Leo On 09/12/15 21:26, Reza Akhavan wrote: > These two tweets are also helpful: > > https://twitter.com/jaaksi/status/674678654333550593 > FirefoxOS is alive and strong, but the push through carriers is over. > We pivot to IoT and user experience. #mozlando > > https://twitter.com/jaaksi/status/674371311708319745 > #Mozilla will stop offering Firefox OS phones through carriers. But we > will continue improving web experience on smartphones. #mozlando > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Wilfred Mathanaraj > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > And a blog post went also live now: > > > https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/09/firefox-os-pivot-to-connected-devices/ > > Wilfred > > - > > > On 9 Dec 2015, at 14:14, David Rajchenbach-Teller > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > For what it's worth, the entire FFOS team (as well as PR) is > traveling > > this week. Not the best week to get in touch with them. > > > > Cheers, > > David > > > >> On 09/12/15 14:11, KUPOinyourWINDOW wrote: > >> I think some people need to calm down with these comments, I > personally will be really upset if my Flame suddenly stops > receiving updates but venting here isn't going to change that. All > we can do is wait and hope. > >> I simply appreciate that people working on FFOS take their time > to respond to these. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dev-fxos mailing list > >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-fxos mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
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