<story><title>Firefox OS is a developer&apos;s best friend</title><url>http://binary-choice.blogspot.com/2014/08/firefox-os-is-developers-best-friend.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LowDog</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m really glad Firefox OS is getting attention and this post highlights the features that Mozilla should be advertising in more developed countries instead of just focusing solely on appealing to developing nations. Competition is good and there really needs to be another player in the game apart from Apple, Google, and Microsoft. We especially need a completely transparent and open mobile operating system like Firefox OS, so I really hope this project succeeds.&lt;p&gt;I would also really like for Mozilla to focus on higher end hardware and to also address some core features that are completely absent from the OS. Some issues regarding these missing features have been sitting open for YEARS on Bugzilla, and it has prompted me to start learning how to develop for the OS, but I have a long while yet before I can make any meaningful contribution.&lt;p&gt;I got a ZTE Open C as my first smart phone, and I was really impressed with how capable it is, but there are some incredibly annoying issues that seem like they are never going to be addressed. For one, the screen brightness returns to 100% every single time I wake my phone up front standby. I really hope Mozilla partners with more manufacturers down the line because I&amp;#x27;ve heard nothing but negative things about the Geeksphone and ZTE phones, and my experiences so far confirm these findings.</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox OS is a developer&apos;s best friend</title><url>http://binary-choice.blogspot.com/2014/08/firefox-os-is-developers-best-friend.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wesleyy</author><text>I wonder if firefox purposely chose to adopt a developer-first strategy with its mobile OS, similar to Stripe. I know that this strategy works, at least somewhat, on me, as I recently needed a payment processor for a hackathon and, knowing nothing about payment processors and after some quick googling for the most developer friendly payment API, I went with Stripe. Though, it&amp;#x27;s probably going to be a lot tougher for Mozilla to use this strategy effectively in such a consumer facing product, especially when the mobile OS market is already so saturated with mature ecosystems.</text></comment>