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		owebmaster 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors... > You say “go back” but that was never more than a niche thing. but you could walk to a phone shop and buy a Linux phone, for example FirefoxOS.

SllX 11 months ago | [–]

Firefox OS lived a short and obscure life years after Android entered the market and certainly wasn’t a GNU or Debian-like distribution of Linux.

Phrodo_00 11 months ago | [–]

Yeah, and there was also Maemo/Meego that was also sold on stores. Neither had a very high market share.

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