Firefox OS: New Design

While design is always useful, there's diminishing returns in optimizing usability.

I really hope that FFOS can see beyond that trap and commit resources to embracing mesh networking as its USP and killer app-space.

Not only would this empower those with sporadic or poor internet connectivity in the developing world, but also take readily abused surveillance and billing power away from centralised carrier communications topologies and fundamentally help to keep society free.

Bug on the subject (vote and follow if you agree) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945047

PDF on the subject https://bug945047.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=84072...

Sad example of current paradigm that FFOS could fix with mesh support: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10117791

Looks like everyone is jumping on the Material Design train in terms of expressive and intuitive animations.

I thought I first saw elements of this in the Windows Phone OS, but Material extended and perfected it, in my opinion.

Looks like a great idea. But I wish they'd showed some web pages and maybe a bit of info on hardware pricing and release.