> The main reason this utterly failed, is because there is literally no reason for people to use this, considering that most Phones came with Android pre-instal

> The main reason this utterly failed, is because there is literally no reason for people to use this, considering that most Phones came with Android pre-installed and nobody was mad enough to install FirefoxOS instead which came with no software support and had no unique selling point. Mozilla spent tens of millions pushing Firefox OS app development: asking developers to build for an underpowered device that they couldn't buy, whose users spoke a different language, didn't want to spend money, and didn't yet exist. Separately, every app built for Firefox for Android (yes, it has app support) worked on Firefox OS. The Android version had millions of active installs. Smart people were working on making web apps compilable to APKs, but that work was killed. Meanwhile, what DID ship was an OS with two app stores: Firefox Marketplace and Everything.me. The latter was a spammy mess that gave glorified shortcuts baked into the home screen. Lots of folks didn't even know that the actual app store was. Firefox declined because leadership put fools in charge of strategy. They were so high on their own supply that they thought fxos was going to make developers materialize out of thin air. It was wishful thinking at best.