Uphill

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/02/2015 07:26 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 10:18:59 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:44:24 +0000, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
>>
>>> Thankfully mobile OSes and desktop app stores seem to be on the right
>>> track to kill this.
>>
>> yet they pushing cromeos and firefoxos...
>
> FirefoxOS is going nowhere.
>
> http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/mozilla-overhauls-firefox-smartphone-plan-to-focus-on-quality-not-cost/
>
>
> As for Chromebooks, at least in Germany they are gathering dust on the
> few stores that bother to try to sell them.
>
> They might be on the Amazon US top charts, but I bet most of its users
> are GNU/Linux users, wiping ChromeOS and using GNU/Linux instead.

Yes. That's also part of why I don't have much expectation for Taizen, 
either. It would already have enough of an uphill battle even if the 
technical aspect was total 100%. But by promoting HTML5-for-apps, they 
might very well be riding the wrong end of a last-decade fad.