Talk:Comparison of mobile operating systems

Plasma Mobile

Anyone thought about adding plasma mobile to the os list - https://plasma-mobile.org

Comparision Template

Maybe there should be a comparison template for things like:

• Comparison of operating systems
• Comparison of web browsers

Switching the table rows with columna

I'm in the process of switching rows with columns and making the tables sortable. I'm not aware of an easy way to do it so I'll be doing it a table at a time Chris Ssk _talk 16:29, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

I think this change will make the page more difficult to read. As some operating systems are discontinued or going to be discontinued in the near term.

I'm correcting the page to be in line with other tech related "comparison" pages. They all list the subject in rows and features in columns. It allows the tables to be sortable making it easy for readers to find what systems support a specific feature, and it makes it easy to add/remove a new row

Examples:

• Comparison of operating systems
• Comparison of web browsers
• Comparison of web browser engines
• Comparison of email clients
• Comparison of instant messaging clients
• Comparison of feed aggregators

Chris Ssk _talk 13:07, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

There are way less mobile operating systems than in any these comparisons. That is way transposing the table is going to make it more difficult to read. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.70.146.35 (talk) 17:46, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Removal of Firefox OS

Firefox OS has been discontinued for a long time. I will remove it unless someone disagrees. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.70.149.106 (talk) 18:10, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps the page should be renamed to "Comparison of current mobile operating systems". As it is the page is a comparison of mobile operating systems so it development or not Firefox OS belongs here. Chris Ssk _talk 13:21, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

No, Firefox should not be removed. If we see other comparison pages, such as listed in above section by Chris Ssk, they all include both current as well as discontinued stuff. Also Chris Ssk, no other comparison page is divided into current and discontinued ones. So we should not rename this page to "Comparison of current mobile operating systems". Saying that, we should also add all mobile OS (Current and discontinued) in this list. See Mobile operating system for complete list of mobile os. We can just mention discontinued in brackets ahead of particular OS. Ryanking16 (talk) 16:03, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

The problem here is that Firefox OS is not supported anymore, so we are not able to maintain the supported features current. As Firefox OS is unsupported, there are effectively no supported features and we will have to remove all the currently supported features anyway. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.70.146.35 (talk) 17:44, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Firefox OS is not a mobile operating system anymore as it pivoted to TVs. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/04/mozilla_kills_firefox_os_in_favour_of_connected_devices/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.70.136.227 (talk) 19:55, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Very interesting entry, but Amazon (Kindle) Fire is touted as diverse from other Android systems

Amazon Fire should get its own entries. It does not feature native access to Google services, only to Amazon services, as exposed in selling advertisement. The whole column of data for Android should be duplicated with precisions for the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet and its variants.