Firefox OS kind of make sense, yet could they implemented ecosystem?
* There are Firefox browser users shocked by spyware addons, it is a norm on mobile. There are no paid Firefox addons. This does not work in "pay or product" reality. Open source and freeware is a small (and awesome) niche.
* There is a Mozilla stance against DRM. There is a lot of paid books, movies, music on Google Play.
* DOM is slow. Javascript has good parts. Google decided in favor of Android apps, not Chrome apps. Also Google Fuchsia.
* Bluetooth, Contacts, NFC, SMS, Wifi [1] access can be asked from OS.
Firefox was not default Windows browser, yet it succeeded. The reason I've never tried Firefox on Android is the loss of Firefox reputation on desktop. Memory bloat, falling behind Developer Tools, constant UI changes, not so snappy UI. Firefox was slow on desktop how could one expect it to perform well on mobile?
* There are Firefox browser users shocked by spyware addons, it is a norm on mobile. There are no paid Firefox addons. This does not work in "pay or product" reality. Open source and freeware is a small (and awesome) niche.
* There is a Mozilla stance against DRM. There is a lot of paid books, movies, music on Google Play.
* DOM is slow. Javascript has good parts. Google decided in favor of Android apps, not Chrome apps. Also Google Fuchsia.
* Bluetooth, Contacts, NFC, SMS, Wifi [1] access can be asked from OS.
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/B2G_OS/API
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Firefox was not default Windows browser, yet it succeeded. The reason I've never tried Firefox on Android is the loss of Firefox reputation on desktop. Memory bloat, falling behind Developer Tools, constant UI changes, not so snappy UI. Firefox was slow on desktop how could one expect it to perform well on mobile?