Let me start from the beginning so that no one is left
out. O.S. aka operating system is a special type of software that device use to
enable them run according e.g. MS windows, ubuntu android, Firefox os etc.
Firefox I guess by now all of you know it’s an open source
browser and am sure a bunch of you are using it right now to read this article.
Now since we are on the same boat let’s explore what happened to this baby.
Firefox o.s was first realized on February 21st
2013. Developed by Mozilla (obviously) and was coded in css, HTML4, JavaScript and
c++. This designed to basically run on smartphones and tablet computers.
It is based on the rendering engine of the Firefox web
browser, Gecko, and on the Linux kernel.
Firefox OS was designed to provide a complete
community-based alternative operating system, for running web applications
directly or those installed from an application marketplace. With this open web
based APIs the applications can directly communicate with the hardware.
This operating system joined the big giants like apples
ios, Google’s android, jollas sailfish o.s and many more.
The Death
To some,me included this was a very good ideas which had
kicked off and followed it to the point that the os has stabilized and deployed
to phones and shipping them.
Sadly enough as this was supposed to take over the world
but the numbers (profits) were still falling off the cliff and at some point Mozilla
did not see any necessity to continue with the project. This came to reality as
it stared to lay off staff in that department
Apparently the current mobile os giants did not give Mozilla
a chance in the competition. How they are shifting gears and going towards the
IOT world.
In a statement Mozilla
said; "We have shifted our internal approach to the internet-of-things
opportunity to step back from a focus on launching and scaling commercial
products to one focused on research and advanced development, dissolving our
connected devices initiative and incorporating our internet-of-things
explorations into an increased focus on emerging technologies,"
With this in mind let’s see how it rolls out as we all
know IOT is the new thing that’s taking over everything. What am still to find out is what happens to
the devices that were rolled out? Do uses have to flash the O.S? when will Mozilla
switch off their o.s servers?
This are just but a few questions that I still have to
find answers to. If you out there and you have the answers fill free to hit the
comment section.