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>"If you want another browser, you just have to write it up in HTML + JS"

So basically, with Firefox OS, you're limited to using the Mozilla browser. Sounds like Firefox is trying to lock you into their standards, exactly what they're accusing Apple of doing with the webkit engine in iOS.

Android and Ubuntu Mobile look to be the only solutions that give me the flexibility I want in a phone OS.

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"Firefox is trying to lock you into their standards"

Yes, the purpose of the project is to promote open standards for phone-oriented web apps.

"exactly what they're accusing Apple of doing with the webkit engine in iOS."

iOS is not an open system and does not promote open standards. The point of the FirefoxOS project is to make interoperable standards that will hopefully be supported by every future web browser.

That's a fairly paranoid assumption. The current documentation of the Firefox OS front end suggests that it will be happy to run third party applications that run outside the browser/front-end layer:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...

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