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Mozilla announced earlier today that they will be cancelling the Firefox OS effort, and will cease creation of new smartphones.
From Techcrunch:
To differentiate from Android and iOS, Mozilla and its carrier partners focused on a web-first platform, with no native and only web apps. Sales, however, were always poor and the devices themselves failed to ignite a lot of consumer interest, and a number of OEMs cornered the market with a flood of cheap handsets. In a business that depends on economies of scale, it was a failure.
This comes a week after gauging interest in spinning off Thunderbird. Is Mozilla's new focus on becoming privacy-oritented enough to save the struggling company? What experience did SoylentNews users have with FirefoxOS? I'll admit, I was optimistic and even owned a ZTE Open for a few months back in 2013, but it was a step down from my feature phone at the time (Nokia Asha 311) and ZTE never delivered on the promise to provide updates to the OS.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @05:23PM
isn't /wasn't firefox OS like a super powerfull CMS?
normally you can do page layout, add/edit/delete text-images-tables-multimedia and then do searches on this with a CMS via browser.
so no need to write html text or use a local html editor and then upload the stuff to a webserver.
the CMS does it all.
only with firefoxOS-CMS you can tell it to take pictures, read sensors, move files around and even ... make phone calls?