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Posted to dev@devicemap.apache.org by Werner Keil <we...@gmail.com> on 2016/02/05 11:27:26 UTC

Mozilla outlines the end of Firefox OS on phones and looks to IoT future

So somewhat similar to Java ME 8 Embedded, targetting IoT devices rather
than phones, Mozillla also hopes to escape an overly dominant Android (and
shrinking, but still very popular iOS) on phones:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/4/10915930/mozilla-firefox-os-internet-of-things

If those can consume web content via an engine or service that has a User
Agent, it won't make it go away. Aspects like "is tablet?" or "is phone?"
are just becoming more and more complicated and "interesting" ;-)

Werner