Foxconn Backs Firefox OS Play

Summary: Can the open-source, Linux-based Firefox mobile operating system become a mobile-space player? The question is far from answered but Mozilla has a new supporter: major electronics contract manufacturer Foxconn.

While Android and Apple iOS battle it out for mobile platform operating system supremacy, other minor mobile operating systems, such as Mozilla's Linux-based, open-source operating system Firefox OS, are still trying to get a seat at the mobile operating system table. On June 3rd,  Firefox OS gained an important backer: electronics contract manufacturing giant Foxconn.

The rumor that Foxconn was preparing to back Firefox OS proved to be correct. Firefox OS's parent organization, the Mozilla Foundation, announced at the at the Computex 2013 trade show in Taipei, Taiwan that "Foxconn is extending past its origins in original design manufacturing to a combination of integrated software and hardware offerings, which extends its domain to the open operating platform and positively carries out its integration plan of hardware, software, content, and services."