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Comment by shellehs | Hacker News Reader

Fortunately, I have touched the early version of Tizen and the prototype base on Tizen. On the prototype machine I saw real "multi-tasks" like we have on laptop, and terminal application ran sweetly.

I asked one of their consultant a question:"Meego replaces Symbian, then Tizen replaced Meego, then who will be the next to replace Tizen?" At that time, Tizen had Cooperation with Samsung. Then, Windows replaced Tizen, to Nokia, big thanks, Elop!

Now we have Jolla, Ubuntu, Firefox, and so on. Along with iOS and Android, make me think of PC desktop, there we have Windows, Mac OS, huge amount of Linux Distros. Could the circumstances on mobile os platform as well as desktop os platform?

Again. Why Apple showing off their amount of apps? Apps is the key. Apps bring possibility to achieve any tasks, not the OS, especially for a mobile os who has not prepared for its UI guideline. I imagine that some apps have back buttons, some don't; some back buttons on the left-top and others on the bottom. When you want to do some operation you have to locate first where the right button was placed.

All it did is just provide a opportunity, that out of control of Android and iOS, the region there people hate close and love openness. I really hope Tizen will be successful, that's also means Linux's success, the openness's success.

I think you're missing one point. The PC market is open to OS developers and users, there's a well known spec and the user can install any OS he wants, but that's not possible (with some minor exceptions, and you may depend on Android) in the mobile market.

Until the OS is reasonably independent of the device, I can't see how Ubuntu, FirefoxOS, or Tizen could compete if they can't access to users (even if some, like Mozilla, have deals with phone companies; do I need to buy a specific phone to run their OS?).

The only way they can compete in a market such as this is to partner with a manufacturer, and the end result is that they have to play to the manufacturers whim (and often the operators whim if the manufacturer wants to ship devices). The end result is absolutely crap devices loaded with useless "value added" apps and skins.

If they could make something revolutionary that people want to have no matter what (like Apple did) then some manufacturers might start selling such devices anyway. But my hopes aren't high for that happening anytime soon.

> The end result is absolutely crap devices loaded with useless "value added" apps and skins.

Yes! They have to bend to carrier's will.

Sorry I do't catch up your opinion very clearly.

You can't legally install Mac OS on PC's. You can install Some Linux on, maybe almost PCs but still have some troubles. PCs have restrict hardware standards. But Mobile devices have not explicitly.

Users can also install other mobile OS on their mobile devices, for example HTC's HD2, it not only can install Windows mobile/XP/7, Linux, Android, also can install dual-OS. As well as Samsung's Nexus, HTC G1...

Firefox OS at first showed us on a Samsung's Galaxy III (?) device. Ubuntu on Galaxy Nexus. They just don't expect to use pre-installed Android devices to run their OS, OS doesn't make money without hardware devices and apps.

They have their own markets. Like Firefox, they promise to provide cheap devices, the main market may depend on South America I don't know.

Well, if you can't install Mac OS on a PC is because the software vendor doesn't want you to do so.

But get any PC and you can install several OSes without being too picky on the hardware. It's accepted that the hardware and the software are different things.

If I want to try FirefoxOS I don't wont to buy a FirefoxOS mobile phone, and it looks like that's going to be the only way.

Completely, NO.

Not the software vendor, it is Apple who does not allow all but Apple's own machines to run Mac OS. It's ilegal but NOT impossible, we see a lot of Hackintosh.

So, you can taste Firefox OS now, it is difficulty as installing Mac OS on PCs, maybe more difficulty. If Firefox OS is popular, I believe you can see more and more devices runs Firefox OS who have pre-installed other OS.

What they did just promise that theoretically speaking, you can run Firefox OS on any devices running Android, whatever Tizen, Ubuntu, Firefox OS. Linux means run anywhere, any platform, impossible. And anyway, Android based on Linux.

> Not the software vendor, it is Apple who does not allow all but Apple's own machines to run Mac OS.

I'm confused here. I thought Apple is Mac OS' vendor. So, yes... as I said it's because Apple. If the OS vendor wants it to be run on a PC, there's no special requirement.

Anyway, that's not the relevant part of my original comment. I can't see how FirefoxOS will be popular if installing it is difficult (even hacky) or if it only works on some specific devices.

We need a market were you buy a phone (that comes with an OS), but you're free to install anything else because hardware != software.

EDIT: typo

Install anything easily? Never mind. If you install various OSes on your mobile device, you are not using it, you are playing with it.

Users don't mind the OS, users don't pay for operating system, users pay for tools, pay for resolutions. They need highly integrated user experience to complete their tasks, so hardware is very important to software.

Who needs a market with free and easy OS installing? Who needs to switch his/her phone's OS? Geeks, or who wants to act like a geek.

You could argue the same about Linux. I installed my first distro back in 1998. I wasn't forced to buy a PC with Linux installed in order to start using it, and it was easier than it is today to install any OS in your mobile phone.

How many Linux users are out there? Are all of them "geeks"?

EDIT: with anything I meant any OS

So what your conclusion?

Install Linux on PC is easier than on Mobile devices? Phone and MID and Tablet and Pad?

I tried hackintosh on my HP laptop(R.I.P), I failed. I tried

I tried to install FreeBSD and Fedora from USB sitck, I failed, my colleagues failed as well.

I tried to burn OpenSUSE...iso, I failed

I am using ubuntu and fedora on my thinkpad, occasionally using OpenSUSE, all upgraded to the newest stable versions, they never run smoothly and productively like Mac OS on my Mac.

I tried arch, I gave up cause the endless options confused me and made me agony.

You don't need to be forced buy mobile devices to use another os, as I mentioned before, ubuntu showed off their mobile os on Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Firefox used Galaxy II of III I'm not sure, if they can why you can't?

mobile devices using different CPU structures,

My point:

Linux was, is and will be for "geeks", not for people who use computer as assistance/tool for completing tasks, just like note, pen, phone, ... Linux is always falling behind the hardware evolution. So it has to adapt hardware drivers. Linux never does things like Mac or Windows does.

You even can't simply complete a task, such as customize desktop theme, listen music and watch video you download from internet on just online, your favorite services like google drive, evernote, Cisco IPsec VPN, without tricking or hacking.

It is dead easy to install Firefox OS on _some_ commonly available Android phones, see [0].

Also, see [1] for the commonly used devices to develop and use Firefox OS with a top notch experience.

[0]: https://autonome.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/firefox-os-devices...

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...

Windows never replaced tizen since nokia never worked on tizen. Tizen is considered to be meego with nokia replaced by samsung. In fact it's only Samsung Linux Platform with some Intel work: Qt has been replaced by EFL.

Right, my mistake. Windows replaced Meego not Tizen.

Samsung does not care what OS it is, If users want, they product; if not, they drop it.

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