[Firefox OS General] chinarabbit:
true, but consider this

Firefox & HTML5 are set to create web-based phones & web-based services which can completely obliterate telecom companies

HTML5 & Firefox could easily do away with the need for communications plans altogether

I'm willing to bet the Firefox phone will end up being the best phone on the market for free web-chatting, & free web-based communications, including voice recording chat, video chat, etc..

it stands to reason they are in panic mode, and want to be there to add a coin-op interface over the entire thing..

they want to be there to either subdue its potential & reign in its free domain, or at least to try & profit from it, believing 'something to be better than nothing'

whats sad is how little the community seems to be embracing HTML5 phones.. and i'm telling you, we're missing something here.. Firefox needs support from everyone, just for the free-chat & free-communication potential..

or else we're just handing it over to the telecom giants

---------- Post added at 02:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:29 AM ----------

and here's the problem

google's current implementation of the Android platform is still centered around phones & technology from 5 years ago, as if we dont want anything else but glassier icons in our phones

smartphones are exactly that, and exactly what they've always been... smartphones have always been weak, inferior implementations of technology for the on-the-go, to-busy-to-bother-with-my-phone user, not the power user, the tech user or computer user - those were where the PDA came in

the PDA has been dropped out of existence, and all anyone cares about now is the retarded smartphone

but lets face it.. its nothing remotely like a mini-computer.. had PDA's been continually developed, then we'd have actually useful mini-computers.. Android is not a mini-computer, its a smartphone, by its own definition

and really, if you dont need a PDA developed in todays environment, then you dont need a mini-computer, and are happy with your little smartphone, which is not actually very useful at all.. its just slightly more useful than a regular phone is, by definition, as its always been with smartphones.

sure, its comparatively much more powerful than smartphones from 6 or 8 years ago, but its still much less powerful than an actual mini-computer, which the PDA would be today had it stayed in development

instead, we're left with only 2 options, 1.) pick up any smart phone on the market, one not being particularly more useful than any other, 2.) go back to using something like the Nokia 3210, because we're certainly not ever going to get an actual mini-computer.. even the ipads & tablets are about as useful as a smartphone, and are WAY MORE smartphone-like than they are Computer like

which is where firefox comes in

for those of us who are tired of make-believing we're playing with useful PDA's and have realized we've got nothing more than a glorified smartphone that isnt ever going to get any better or more PDA-like...

so rather than play around as if we were using a mini-computer, we'll just take the sting of reality away by at least acknowledging that fact & the truth of that reality, and then we might as well go play with firefox, since all we're really allowed to do is play around like imbeciles anyway