[thelukester]

Count you in on the openness alone? Who are you, RMS? There's already an extremely open OS out there. In fact Firefox OS is based off of it. You can download the source code, build it yourself, and submit patches. You can even change the default app store. It comes with a rich app ecosystem and a beautifully designed and responsive UI. The latter two are what people in the real world care about when choosing a smartphone.

[ndesaulniers]

> You can even change the default app store. It comes with a rich app ecosystem and a beautifully designed and responsive UI.

Thought you were talking about Firefox OS there!

[slacka]

Listen, I'm don't expect miracles from Mozilla on their first attempt, but the Mozilla PR and fanboyz put their reality distortion field in overdrive in this thread. The Mozilla Marketplace is a joke compared to iOS or Android app stores. And I've heard Firefox called a lot of things, like sluggish, slow, unresponsive, but responsive has never been one of them.

If Mozilla pulled a last minute rabbit out of the hat, then I'll gladly admit my error. 6 years after the Original iPhone and with much better hardware, you’d think it would be possible for Mozilla to do this. Though it seems more likely the constraints of HTML5/JS will keep this from happening on low-end hardware.