From the article: "But Mozilla isn’t interested in locking down users with Firefox OS and the Firefox Marketplace. In fact, Android owners can download the mobi

From the article: "But Mozilla isn’t interested in locking down users with Firefox OS and the Firefox Marketplace. In fact, Android owners can download the mobile version of Firefox right now, head to marketplace.firefox.com, and start downloading the same games that are available on handsets running the new operating system." Firefox OS continually sounds more and more self-defeating. Why would anyone bother with Firefox OS when they can get the same benefits while using Android or some other platform, while also getting the additional benefits those platforms offer? Everything about Firefox OS is repulsive to users and developers. Users get a limited amount of software. Developers don't really even have a choice about what programming language to use (choosing between JavaScript and CoffeeScript, TypeScript or Dart isn't what I consider a real "choice"). This encourages the typical no-win situation where there are no developers, no users, and nothing to encourage growth in either area. The worst thing may be that it siphons off effort that could be going toward improving Mozilla's products that are actually useful and widely used, like Firefox on the desktop and Thunderbird. It's just not encouraging that Firefox OS looks worse and worse the more we learn about it.