> How are they not locked into the 'silo' of FirefoxOS and the FirefoxOS APIs? FirefoxOS is fully open source, while the Google platform is not. At the very le

> How are they not locked into the 'silo' of FirefoxOS and the FirefoxOS APIs? FirefoxOS is fully open source, while the Google platform is not. At the very least, that provides an environment where the source code for all the official supported platform is Free Software, which isn't true for Android. This means that all users could share the same experience without depending on proprietary software (except maybe for drivers and BIOS specific to the hardware platform).