Apple’s iOS is the second-most popular smartphone operating system. iPhone 5 (courtesy Apple.com)
Reports last week of a possible smartphone running a Firefox operating system from Mozilla, developer of the Firefox Web browser, raises the question of whether the world is ready for — or even needs — yet another flavor of smartphone software.
Before smartphones — when we just called them cellphones or mobile phones and used them mostly to make phone calls — nobody gave much thought to the software that powered them.
Then came smartphones, which are in reality miniature purse-or-pocket computers that we occasionally — just occasionally — use to make a call when we’re not texting, tweeting, Facebooking, navigating, taking and sharing photos, playing music, browsing the Internet, checking our bank balances or running one of thousands of available apps that are downloaded literally by the billions.
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