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gkanai on March 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fear of Apple

There is a web-based mobile phone: Firefox OS.

AnthonyMouse on March 25, 2015 [–]

The large majority of Firefox OS is written in C and C++. The Linux kernel it uses isn't web-based. Firefox itself isn't web-based.

Mozilla are good people, but it's really obvious why they would want to encourage people to make web apps instead of native apps. There is still a ton of software that can't be web-based.

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