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Remember where your loyalties lay, Mozilla. I think they're starting to spread themselves too thin with wasted development of a Firefox OS and social integration.

While you may have a point about spreading things too thin, I would hardly call Firefox OS wasted effort. Even as a die-hard Android-user I find it some of the most fascinating and promising development going on in the mobile-sector right now.

If there is one platform I want to succeed, it's not Apple's or Google's. It's the web.

Having you entire mobile experience powered by standardized HTML, JS and APIs would be wonderful. It would also make it dead easy to provide mobile "apps" for web-sites without the need to setup huge, dedicated app-development teams, one for each "supported" platform.

I don't see Firefox OS as wasted effort. The rest of the bunch (Apple, Google, Microsoft) are just doing a mobile/touch-oriented rehash of the desktop-regime, with an added proprietary app-store.

Firefox OS on the other hand, is not getting near the attention and recognition it deserves. It's the only revolutionary mobile-platform being developed right now. It's the only platform bringing forth some new ideas.




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