On December 8, TechCrunch reported from Mozilla's annual developer meeting that Mozilla had announced it was putting an end to its Firefox OS smartphone program. The announcement spread quickly—but with quite a bit of variation as to exactly what aspects of Firefox OS were being shut down. A number of tech-industry bloggers, for example, characterized the move as Mozilla "ditching" or even "killing" Firefox OS itself. But the actual statement published at TechCrunch was more limited in scope—although it still leaves many unanswered questions about where Firefox OS is heading next.