Mozilla has announced that it has abandoned its smartphone ambitions for Firefox OS. According to Ari Jaaksi, SVP Connected Devices, Mozilla will use the technology from the web-centric operating system to enter the IoT – branding the announcement as a new beginning rather than an end. It’s a similar fate to the one that Samsung’s Tizen OS has suffered. Initially something of a bargaining chip in case Google began tightening the leash over its use of Android in Samsung handsets, Tizen was meant to provide an OS that Samsung could leap to if its Android licenses were revoked by Google – as the Android parent was growing increasingly frustrated with the amount of non-standard apps (bloatware) that Samsung was pushing…