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Gearburn • 29 May 2015

Firefox OS first impressions: no Android killer, yet

By Andy Walker, former editor

It has been a while since we’ve seen a new mobile operating system out in the wild. Back in 2008, Android tepidly crept into view and back then, it wasn’t predicted to become one of the greatest mobile OSes ever crafted. Look at it’s mobile device market share today, and you’d wonder why technology analysts and journalists still have jobs.