From now on, we have one less open source mobile phone system

Firefox OS, a bold attempt by traditional browser giant Mozilla in the field of mobile phone systems, finally came to an end with the official disclosure today that no related smartphones and devices will be launched.

According to Engadget, Mozilla officially announced earlier today: "We will stop providing Firefox OS phones to operators." However, they still hope to make further software attempts on other smart devices, but not mobile phones. As for the most critical reason, Mozilla said they could not provide the "best user experience" on mobile phones.

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Unlike iOS and Android, the biggest feature of Firefox OS is that its architecture is not a traditional system, but a Gecko browser engine built on Linux, and both the system and applications are developed using HTML5. In principle, this approach has inherent advantages in cross-platform compatibility and further reducing hardware costs.

So Mozilla chose low-priced entry-level mobile phones as its target from the beginning, and even chose developing BRICS countries such as Brazil as its first market, rather than the US market where competition in the mobile field is the most intense. However, with the further development of the mobile industry chain, the prices of entry-level Android and Windows mobile phones have dropped to less than US$100 (RMB 642), so there is naturally no room for Firefox OS to survive. This is why Firefox OS is always classified as "other" in the pie charts of various mobile phone system surveys.

Although the free use of Firefox OS has attracted a number of mobile phone manufacturers, in today's mobile field where native applications are popular, the practice of leaving all functions to HTML5 may still be too radical. The idea is very good, but most App makers are not very interested in Firefox OS, and the fact that mobile web pages are already quite mature is one of the reasons. This dilemma even gave birth to j2me.js, a practice that runs Java-based software on the Android platform with JavaScript in the browser, which is itself extremely ironic.

With the exit of Firefox OS, Android is the only open source smart mobile system left. However, there is no need to worry about causing too much impact, after all, Firefox OS itself does not account for much of the proportion.

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Of course, the most regrettable thing is those Firefox OS phones that have become products. Of course, there is no shortage of such phones that eventually died because of the operating system in the history of mobile phone development, such as Nokia N9 using MeeGo and Palm using WebOS.