The fundamental things hindering adoption of Firefox OS (and WebOS for that matter) had nothing to do with its platform being Web based.<p>It didn&#x27;t help when it came to reviews but even if it had been more like BlackBerry OS it would&#x27;ve faced the same adoption problems. Maybe going the route of Amazon&#x27;s Fire OS could&#x27;ve worked for them assuming they could better compete with Google&#x27;s Play Store than what Amazon is.