Foxconn Betting Big On Firefox OS

jfruh writes "Foxconn is firmly identified in the public mind as the company that manufactures iPhones and iPads. But the company is looking to forge its own identity, and sees Firefox OS as the means to do so. To that end, Foxconn is hiring thousands of developers to help work on the open source phone OS and Foxconn's own suite of cloud services."

Re:How about a Cloud OS?

[gl4ss]

How about a Cloud OS? A VM OS that lives in the cloud and sends screens (instead of data) to your PC, tablet, phone, etc. It will have blazing fast network access, can add cores, RAM, disk space with a click. If you are a geek, you can probably do this, but there are so many details to work out and it violates the terms of service for many hosting places. Make it cheap and easy for the masses. The tech is there, but it isn't mainstream.

yeah everything is would be fast except actual interaction! brilliant!

https://www.google.com/search?q=cloud+desktop [google.com] have fun.

I don't understand how you think it violates terms of hosting places though.. it doesn't. you might need a license on the os you run in there though of course. but you would just end up using android on your desktop if you went this route since if the same stuff and programs are streamed to all of your devices, you're going go by the shittiest device and not the best.

Re:FireFoxConn OS

[Kozar_The_Malignant]

A quick web search shows that the following mobile phone operating systems are currently being actively used:

• Android
• BlackBerry 10
• iOS
• Nokia Asha
• Sailfish OS
• Windows Phone
• Windows RT
• Bada
• BlackBerry OS
• Grid OS
• Linux
• Mer
• S40
• Brew
• SHR
• Symbian
• webOS
• Tizen

A number of these are open source. I'm sure you can find something to your liking on that list.