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No. The team was repurposed, not really Firefox OS though. Have got some insider knowledge on this one.

I mean come on. Firefox OS on embedded devices, the thing could barely run on cheap smartphones.

Having used the one of their special SPARC dev phones, the OS is actually very very good. Like every device it had limits but it just cruised along like a champion for 90% of tasks and had freakishly good call quality.

"The team was repurposed". That's one of the better euphemisms I've seen in a while. Could be worse; they could have been recycled.

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