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Mozilla Kills Firefox OS As The Focus Shifts To Internet of Things

Open Source movement has received a major jolt as Mozilla finally gives up their dream of Firefox Mobile OS. In a blog post, Mozilla developer George Roter admitted that the existing biggies in this space: Android and iOS are way too powerful to compete, and the commercial viability has evaporated from their community driven, open source OS.He said, “Through the work of hundreds of contributors we made an awesome push and created an impressive platform in Firefox OS. However, as we announced in December, the circumstances of multiple established operating systems and app ecosystems meant that we were playing catch-up, and the conditions were not there for Mozilla to win on commercial smartphones.”As per the official release, Mozilla will no longer develop their mobile OS after version 2.6 release. However, the market place will continue to accept apps which are made in Firefox Mobile OS. They will stop accepting app somewhere in 2017.We knew that Mozilla is struggling to keep up, as last year, they ditched $25 Firefox Smartphone, and admitted that commercial viability is becoming tougher day by day. Their plans of developing open-source, community driven OS and Smartphone costing just $25 had excited technology lovers all over the world, as they believed that democratization of knowledge is finally happening.

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