kinda wanna get a pinephone just to boot stuff like Sailfish, Lune OS and Mobian and play around with it. Dream of a time where there's more than two mobile operating systems.
like, I quite like Android 12. It's come a long way. But I distinctly recall walking into a store and trying out Ubuntu mobile and I think also Firefox OS? and it was cool and felt like finally someone was trying something new in a pretty stale marketplace
it's almost as if capitalism heavily favors monopolies huh
oh yeah Firefox OS kinda lives on in KaiOS (though that's closed-source) powering feature phones like the Nokia 8110 revival
@noiob banana phone
@IDeletedSystem64 yes that's literally why they made a yellow one
@noiob I'm still kind of salty about Microsoft killing Windows Mobile and never doing anything good with Windows Phone. I still feel like Android even now still has ways to go before it reaches Windows Mobile's level of functionality.
@barret yup, Windows Phone was super well-designed and also really pretty. A bunch of my friends had WPs and just used the browser for stuff that you'd have an app for on other OSes. Really sad that they ended up giving up on it before Win 10 which looked so cool
I understand why Firefox OS was cancelled but gosh at the time a mostly-webapp OS with Mozilla's handwriting on it sounded really good. Ubuntu for phones was afaik the first time someone really committed to the phone-turns-into-a-desktop thing