FirefoxOS was so clearly doomed to failure from inception. Web based anything has huge overhead compared to native code. Yet they targeted ultra low-end hardw

FirefoxOS was so clearly doomed to failure from inception. Web based anything has huge overhead compared to native code. Yet they targeted ultra low-end hardware for emerging markets... The benefits of web-based apps are the low barrier to entry and freedom from platform lock-in (openness). They needed to target rich open source loving users with ultra high-end hardware that could cope with the overhead, and use Freedom as the USP. Not sure that would've worked, but it would've fit their OS better. One thing I can say - at least FirefoxOS was 1000x better than Ubuntu Phone.