&gt; Mobile apps are killing the web.<p>It&#x27;s like saying desktop apps are killing the web which is stupid. You need both. Yes you need strong standards and open technologies but a random mobile game or a contact list on my phone isn&#x27;t the web.<p>&gt; Firefox OS was an attempt to combat that<p>It wasn&#x27;t going to work anyway given the poor performances of Firefox OS. That&#x27;s what killed it more than anything else. They chose to go for low end devices with web techs ? we all know how web techs perform in general, badly, compared to solutions based on Java, C , C++, Swift and co ... This true on desktop and even more true on limited devices such as phones.<p>Firefox OS is open source and it&#x27;s a good think, but aside from open source developers,most buyers don&#x27;t care about that.