> the smart decision to invest effort into the only solution that makes sense longterm I don't think it was smart at all. Building an OS is such a monumental c

> the smart decision to invest effort into the only solution that makes sense longterm I don't think it was smart at all. Building an OS is such a monumental challenge, and an embedded OS requires hardware support that an org the size of Mozilla was never going to be able to undertake. Anyone who had worked with embedded around the time of BTG immediately wrote it off, and it took a separate company taking tons of money (and relationships) from Google to even get anywhere. > Android is effectively Google anyway At least a super stripped down version of android would have had plug in compatibility with BSPs - which is Android's "hidden" strength.