Mozilla tried an HTML-based application OS for a mobile phone but canceled this project.
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Wasn't it pretty late though? Also web technology has advanced greatly since 2013
I agree.
And sadly it was an utter failure.
Surely it costs a billion dollars to produce a competitive handset?
I think people would buy a wifi enabled touchscreen pocket device that super simple was good with PWA, but had no sim, no 4/5G antenna or any of the expensive cpu/RAM that a modern phone has.
Why aim for a phone when an open source iPod touch is all that’s require?
Use your phone as a hotspot, and have a 5.5inch open source device for doing fun open source stuff.
Ubuntu phone was crowd funded, and it got quite a long way
Mark Shuttleworth could have funded it, but he said he thought it was against the spirit, which is fair enough
Linux on microsoft surface I hear works well
People are working on solutions, but they are largely niche
Give me a terminal, and I'm happy
I had one. Bit clunky and slow with limited app selection
I also had an ubuntu phone which I really liked, but they never managed to get convergence to production levels, almost tho
Right now I have a degoogled e foundation phone, which is a better UX
Mainly use a regular android phone tho with termux and ssh into it
Gonna run a nostr relay locally, and connect it to my client, so that I'll get global feed, plus local