I dunno. From what i am seeing, Apple and Google are busy rearranging UI deck chairs.<p>The major problem of FirefoxOS though was trying to pitch the whole &quot;everyone can (re)write apps&quot; to a market that is all about user lock-in.<p>Every OEM and carrier wants to be the landlord of the phone &quot;owner&quot;, taking a bite out of everything the user does with the device.<p>But if every app is a web page, and all the code is out in the open, it is quite easy for the user to disable and strip out rent extraction code.<p>And yes your right about Mozilla being distracted. And sadly they are not alone. The whole FOSS world seem hell bent on wasting energy doing all kinds of shiny projects and social outreach.<p>I&#x27;m tempted to call it the curse of SXSW.