Mozilla announced that the company was finally bowing out of the smartphone space. The company will pull the plug on its Firefox OS for smartphones from May onwards, ensuring that Firefox OS 2.6 will be the last supported mobile OS which is officially supported by Firefox. However, the company is only pulling the plug on the smartphone platform; the Firefox OS will stay alive, but will be used to power Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In the blog post, Mozilla's George Rotor conceded that Mozilla was often “playing catch-up” with more established operating systems, as well as app ecosystems. With tech giants such as Apple and Google enjoying the lion’s share of the smartphone market, pulling out appeared to be the smarter move. Hence, Mozilla can accept defeat in one area and move on to focus its energy on other areas – namely, Connected Devices.