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Daniel Appelquist (torgo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 19:12:00 JST Daniel Appelquist

Came into the office in my #FirefoxOS hoodie. Some engineers asked me “what was Firefox OS?” Oh boy. Let me tell you a story.
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1. Selfie in my Firefox OS hoodie.
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 19:11:59 JST Aral Balkan
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  @torgo Imagine if it had been under AGPL and we had free and open source feature phones now instead of the ones running proprietary forks.
  Do you know if there’s a modern open source fork that runs on any available hardware today? Could be just the thing for a Small Web phone in the future…
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 22:25:35 JST Aral Balkan
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  @torgo Yeah, but that’s proprietary, no?
  
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  Daniel Appelquist (torgo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 22:25:36 JST Daniel Appelquist
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  @aral KaiOS is the spiritual successor: https://www.kaiostech.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
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  1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.kaiostech.com
    
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    the mobile OS for smart feature phone to enable tomorrow
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    KaiOS
    
    KaiOS is a mobile Linux distribution for keypad feature phones based on the Firefox OS open-source project. It is developed by KaiOS Technologies (Hong Kong) Limited; a company based in Hong Kong, whose largest shareholder is Chinese electronics conglomerate TCL Corporation. KaiOS runs on feature phones made with low-power hardware and low power consumption (and therefore long battery life). KaiOS supports modern connectivity technologies like 4G LTE E, VoLTE, GPS, and Wi-Fi. KaiOS runs HTML5-based apps. KaiOS supports over-the-air updates and has a dedicated app marketplace called KaiStore. Some applications are preloaded, including Facebook and YouTube. As of 1 April 2020, there are 500+ apps in KaiStore. The mobile operating system is comparatively lightweight on hardware resource usage, and is able to run on devices with just 256 megabytes (MB) of memory. History The operating system was first released in 2017, and is developed by KaiOS Technologies Inc., a Hong Kong-based company headed by CEO Sebastien Codeville, with offices in other countries. In June 2018, Google invested US$22...

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