| Not so much. The whole point of FirefoxOS is that the browser (Firefox) is the OS. Everything else on top is built on HTML and run by the browser. Guess what the browser app is? It's pretty much just a HTML-app letting you set the location a iframe container should point to. It really is HTML all the way down. Lots of people look at this as some sort of lock-in, because hey! you can't switch browser. Which is sorta true. But IMO they miss the point: Firefox OS is about the opposite of lock-in: It is all about promoting openness and standards on an application-level, because all applications will first and foremost be web-applications and none of those will be locked into Firefox OS. So if you ever decide to move on, away from FirefoxOS, you lose nothing. Because all those apps works everywhere else as well. IMO it's the only revolutionary mobile OS out there right now, it's the only one offering something truly new and unique and it's the only player promoting open web-standards over their own technology and walled gardens. And for that reasons, I'd really wish it would get more support in the community, instead of these typical HNesque reasons "But it's closed because I can't change browser!" (which I'd like to think of as a Chrome Stockholm sort of effect) If that is your objection, you've clearly missed the point. |