Some people on this thread are completely missing the point of Firefox OS. Its about standards and making it work cross-platform with no lock-in about vendors.

Some people on this thread are completely missing the point of Firefox OS. Its about standards and making it work cross-platform with no lock-in about vendors. Last week, I spent some days on a hackathon to promote Firefox OS app development. It was very refreshing and fun. After developing for iOS and Android, developing for a mobile phone using JS was a very good experience. I enjoy using Javascript. I think Obj-C is great too and I am not fond of Java but this is not about whats your favorite language, its about bringing the freedom of the web to your mobile device. In couple days, I created a tiny QR Decoder that anyone with a Firefox OS device could browse too and install on their phone. That was great. During the hackathon we shared lots of apps between each other without the need for market approval, vendor saying or whatever. And yet there's the Firefox Marketplace to help discovery and certification for privileged apps. Firefox Aurora for Android already has open web apps support that allow you to install web apps on your Android device and will hopefully implement all the WebAPI. Once Android and Firefox OS support the WebAPI there will be pressure on the other vendors to implement it as well and then we'll be in a better place than we are now.