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Comment by JoeAltmaier | Hacker News Reader

Much of the bad is cultural. Americans are impatient with devices, and feel frustration/anger when they don't get instant gratification.

Others are more adaptable, more patient, and content to learn to use the device as it must be used to work correctly.

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The phone performs poorly, and the excuse is to blame the "impatience" of Americans?

This comment reads like a sarcastic "It's not a bug, it's a feature." If the phone is terrible compared to the competition, people aren't going to be patient and adaptable--they're going to buy the competition.

There's competition at that price?

It's weird how Americans are apparently the only group that it's perfectly acceptable to criticize in completely malicious and baseless ways.

I'm an American, and while there's much wrong with my country and its people, you are full of shit here.

Job would smash this phone, at least he would only be out $35.

Most of the world lives with dumb phones and don't dissolve into childish fits. How to explain that?

Save $5 and get a phone that actually works.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004ZLV4JG/ref=sr_1_1...

Edit: I want FFOS to succeed, pretending that this phone is usable will not help that goal.

That phone sells for 500+ in the third world...

Sounds like a business opportunity.

For many it is...

That's just it, though. If a "smartphone" offers a worse webbrowsing experience than a "dumb phone" with Opera Mobile that runs well on its resource-constrained host, why buy the smartphone?

Most of the 3rd world lives with dumb phones that work well for the tasks they are designed to perform which are to make calls and send text messages. The device in question is not able to perform any of the above named tasks without running into problems. This would frustrate anyone no matter where they live

If the 'problems' are lag and failure to multitask (as listed) then they are only problems of patience, as I mentioned. This does not frustrate anyone; it frustrates folks who feel entitled to the best.

Except a 5 year old Symbian phone is capable of multitask without any issues.

Which matters only if you've ever owned one.

Asia, the market intended for Firefox OS, is one of the biggest ones with feature phones and Symbian devices.

Maybe because they have more people there? Most people, even there, own non-smart phones.

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