Obviously, I&#x27;m incredibly biased, but I think it&#x27;s reasonable to see the shift as applying FFOS to a different thing. The OS they&#x27;ve created is flexible enough to go on a completely different device, where as I don&#x27;t think android belongs many places outside of phones and tablets.<p>I think that flexibility is what lets them avoid calling this a failed project, and more of a pivot. By the way, FFOS hasn&#x27;t become any LESS of a phone OS just because they&#x27;re focusing on applying it to IoT stuff -- It still runs great, and you can flash it to a lot of flagship phones without any problems.<p>The best thing about FFOS is that it doesn&#x27;t require buy in to some closed platform. Your connected fridge apps and your connected microwave apps are just going to be webapps, which take advantage of an in-browser (knowing the devs at mozilla, most likely well documented, open an reasonable)  API.<p>While I definitely don&#x27;t know what manufacturers actually go through (I&#x27;m not one), I might choose FFOS over android because of ease of app creation, lack of having to deal with Google, and more thoroughly open OS. If I want to spin my own version of gaia (the frontend for FFOS), it&#x27;s incredibly easy (and of course, styling HTML&#x2F;CSS, and adding some JS is in my opinion, easier than dealing with the Android ecosystem)