I think the most important thing Firefox OS can do, even if it's not a financial success, is to bring Mozilla – and in extension everyone who cares about openness – to the discussion table. This can, if played right, become a very effective tactic at standardizing things on the phone/device platform.
It's a fact that the web is playing a more important part on phones, and no-one has quite yet been able to figure out how to integrate it well in a native environment. Rethinking the phone environment with the browser sandbox as a toolkit is a very interesting, but also bold approach.
So whether Firefox OS takes off or not is really of secondary interest to me. I'm just happy that people who care about curating and caring for the web are making their voices heard.
It's a fact that the web is playing a more important part on phones, and no-one has quite yet been able to figure out how to integrate it well in a native environment. Rethinking the phone environment with the browser sandbox as a toolkit is a very interesting, but also bold approach.
So whether Firefox OS takes off or not is really of secondary interest to me. I'm just happy that people who care about curating and caring for the web are making their voices heard.