KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to enhance Gecko engine for KaiOS
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Re: KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to enhance Gecko engine for KaiOS
#2Please, KaiOS -- make a high end phone and hit the market that Mozilla never did with FFOS -- wealthy developers who want a platform completely unburdened with apple or google.
I'm not sure what's actually interesting about this partnership, it seems obvious, but one thing I think is a huge problem is that they're mentioning Gecko so much -- they should be trying to move to Servo as fast as possible.
There is already a project called servonk[0] that shows this might be very possible.
Re: KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to enhance Gecko engine for KaiOS
#3Is there more to this story than a corporate press release? or should we wait until something substantive appears?
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Re: KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to enhance Gecko engine for KaiOS
#4Please, KaiOS -- make a high end phone and hit the market that Mozilla never did with FFOS -- wealthy developers who want a platform completely unburdened with apple or google. I'm not sure what's actually interesting about this partnership, it seems obvious, but one thing I think is a huge problem is that they're mentioning Gecko so much -- they should be trying to move to Servo as fast as possible. There is already…
Last time I heard about servo I read that it was a proof of concept and that the good ideas would be ported to Gecko. I could be wrong. I'm still quite confused about what servo is and will be.
Re: KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to enhance Gecko engine for KaiOS
#5Please, KaiOS -- make a high end phone and hit the market that Mozilla never did with FFOS -- wealthy developers who want a platform completely unburdened with apple or google. I'm not sure what's actually interesting about this partnership, it seems obvious, but one thing I think is a huge problem is that they're mentioning Gecko so much -- they should be trying to move to Servo as fast as possible. There is already…
Servo is essentially Mozilla's Rust browser test ground, and my understanding is that it is not meant to stand on its own as a browser engine.
Re: KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to enhance Gecko engine for KaiOS
#6For those who don't know, KaiOS is a closed-source proprietary fork of Mozilla's abandoned FirefoxOS for mobile devices. It's become extremely popular for low-end feature phones in the developing world.
Re: KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to enhance Gecko engine for KaiOS
#7Please, KaiOS -- make a high end phone and hit the market that Mozilla never did with FFOS -- wealthy developers who want a platform completely unburdened with apple or google. I'm not sure what's actually interesting about this partnership, it seems obvious, but one thing I think is a huge problem is that they're mentioning Gecko so much -- they should be trying to move to Servo as fast as possible. There is already…
Companies can't survive on high-end products only, unless there is a monopoly or external cash. (I do want new platform of course, like everyone else)
Re: KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to enhance Gecko engine for KaiOS
#8For those who don't know, KaiOS is a closed-source proprietary fork of Mozilla's abandoned FirefoxOS for mobile devices. It's become extremely popular for low-end feature phones in the developing world. https://www.androidauthority.com/kaios-phone-review-979286/
Not sure about closed source part: https://github.com/kaiostech
Re: KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to enhance Gecko engine for KaiOS
#9Youtuber 'TechAltar' made a video[1] on March 11 giving his perspective on this.
While I wouldn't normally link to a YouTube video in this context, KaiOS Technologies specifically reached out to TechAltar to provide him with details so he could cover the story.
It's likely that one of the reasons KaiOS decided to reach out was because of his July 2018 video[2] covering KaiOS, which has over a million views.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UPk3mpcDP4 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA_g2bQgOXY
Re: KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to enhance Gecko engine for KaiOS
#10Youtuber 'TechAltar' made a video[1] on March 11 giving his perspective on this. While I wouldn't normally link to a YouTube video in this context, KaiOS Technologies specifically reached out to TechAltar to provide him with details so he could cover the story. It's likely that one of the reasons KaiOS decided to reach out was because of his July 2018 video[2] covering KaiOS, which has over a million views. [1] https…
Linked it yesterday (2020-03-11) with very little interest