Mozilla Handing Out Free Firefox OS Developer Phones To Bolster App Marketplace 53
MojoKid writes "Is the world really ready to shift from native apps to HTML5 Web apps? Probably not, at least not in North America yet, but developing nations may see it differently. That's the hope with Firefox OS, a web-based operating system that's (in theory) a lot more open. Of course, one needs only look at Microsoft's battle to get Windows Phone into a place of competition to realize that gaining market share is no easy task, which is why Mozilla will soon be handing out Firefox OS developer phones in order to bolster that. The company's goal is to get app builders to build for Firefox OS, so Mozilla is sending out free Preview handsets for folks to tinker with."
Re:Seen the community hype before... (Score:4, Interesting)
Funny reading all these comments on how great FirefoxOS will be and how everyone will get access to sub $200 smartphones and how great it will be having an open phone, blah, blah, blah.
People were singing the praise when Google was doing the same thing and look how that turned out.
Yes, just look at how it turned out. I spent under $80 all told for an unlocked phone with a 32MB memory card, with a healthy developer community. I don't have to use it with google services at all. I guess FirefoxOS will be great, at least based on your example.