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Story: Firefox OS: One more for the roadTotal Replies: 1
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henke54

Jul 05, 2012
12:17 PM EDT
Quoting:Even Android evidently can't go as low as Firefox OS though OEMs are certainly trying (don't forget, Android licensees have to pay Microsoft to use Android).
http://wpnow.net/2012/07/03/mozilla-enters-the-smartphone-wa...

http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/07/02/firefox-mobile-os/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-04/telefonica-bids-to-...

http://www.zdnet.com/firefox-os-photo-revealed-by-mozilla-ev...

http://www.bgr.com/2012/07/02/mozilla-firefox-os-release-dat...
tracyanne

Jul 05, 2012
6:31 PM EDT 		Running one's own apps on Firefox OS would take no more than having ones own website, and coding HTML 5 "apps".

Third party stuff on FF OS would be a doddle, so too would malicious websites. But all in all I think it beats having to code to Googles API for Android or Windows Phone, and getting past Apples gatekeepers. I think FF OS really frees up the Mobile OS ecosystem in much the same way the net has already done so. There are I think huge possibilities for this, that I can't even imagine just yet.

It's a completely, or at least potentially so, an open ecosystem. The handset players may attempt to lock it down with proxies and such, but in the end I think the cats out of the bag.

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