Firefox OS? ⇒

A few days ago I saw this tweet from Campbell Macdonald regarding the Firefox OS. As a sort-of joke I commented, "What's the over/under on how many they sell, 1000?" The arguments I got back on why it was good/would succeed were: 1. Brazilian launch where Firefox has a good brand 2. Web-native operating system 3. Open source 4. Cheap I think these are all rather silly reasons for success. First, is it really a great brand? When it comes to browsing on the desktop it is #3 on the list and falling. In mobile they have no real presence (both top browsers are based on WebKit). Second, it is no name when it comes to operating systems. In fact, their browser is the slowest of the bunch so why would I assume its OS would be fast? Regarding the web-native suggestion, I don't know about you, but I can always tell when an app is a simple Webview. And this is on the best mobile OS browser on one of the fastest devices. Can you just image what performance would be like on a super cheap handheld with a slow CPU and not enough RAM? I'm not sure at all how being Open Source will help it succeed as I haven't seen any consumer apps/platforms that have succeeded AND are Open Source. Let's not even get into the app discoverability issues and malware/useless crap that people will make to clog up this non-existent marketplace. Lastly, the price. You can get iPhones for $0 (in the US, granted) and POS Android phones for like $40 in Radio Shack and Wal*Mart. So how exactly will price "win"?