This may upset some advocates of the open Web. Mozilla has decided to shut down its Firefox smartphone operating system, barely 3 years after a launch aimed at challenging the dominant platforms powered by Google & others.
The operating system created by the Mozilla developer community as an open-source system failed to gain traction in mobile devices, according to a statement from Mozilla developer George Roter.
“Through the work of hundreds of contributors we made an awesome push & created an impressive platform in Firefox OS,” he said in a blog post.
Mozilla’s Firefox OS isn’t strictly speaking dead, but it may as well be as far as smartphones are concerned. The company announced via email that it would stop supporting …
Development of Firefox OS will cease completely after version 2.6 is released. “The circumstances of multiple established operating systems and app ecosystems …
It doesn’t really come as a surprise, considering Mozilla announced back in December at “Mozlando” that it was ending development and would stop selling Firefox OS smartphones. But …