Mozilla to kill Firefox smartphone operating system

Ari Jaaksi, Mozilla’s SVP of Related Units, stated on the Mozlando developer occasion final December that the corporate’s nice smartphone experiment would quickly draw to an in depth. This isn’t a surprise given the fact that Mozilla does have some more Firefox OS devices, Panasonic has a number of smart TV’s with their software and there are a couple of other products which are being pushed through internal innovation processes at the moment. The company has said that it will continue accepting Firefox OS apps until next year and is yet to reveal when it’s going to stop accepting those apps.

Last year, Mozilla quietly announced it was giving up on trying to build a viable smartphone operating system that could compete with Android and iOS.

Open Source movement has received a major jolt as Mozilla finally gives up their dream of Firefox Mobile OS.

He said, “Through the work of hundreds of contributors we made an awesome push and created an impressive platform in Firefox OS”. The app ecosystem had to continuously play catch-up to remain relevant, and as such, Mozilla did not foresee success on commercial smartphones. Today, the company has yet again confirmed the move and offered new specifics on when and how it will sunset Firefox OS on phones – and begin focusing on the Internet of Things. While a few lower-end smartphones were released in Europe, developers never were likely to spend too much time creating apps for such a small platform. The platform’s HTML5 basis meant you can by no means actually have the kinds of wealthy app experiences different platforms take as a right (although, in equity, net app high quality and efficiency improved dramatically since Firefox OS’s launch).

It states that there should be no more team working on Firefox OS smartphone beyond May.

We are sure that Mozilla’s decision to kill mobile OS is just a temporary bump in the road for a greater cause, and the excited community of Open Source lovers is expecting something really big from them.

Instead the company now wants to focus on Connected Devices, according to Bernard because the company is “entering this exciting, fragmented space to ensure users have choice through interoperable, open solutions, and for us to act as their advocates for data privacy and security”.