Mozilla partners up with LG to combat Apple and Google with its own device
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#2And so the browser becomes the OS - or at least it becomes what people build their applications on top of.
Re: Mozilla partners up with LG to combat Apple and Google with its own device
#3So Mozilla's fully open "Boot to Gecko" will power the carriers walled garden "fully closed" wet dreams?
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Re: Mozilla partners up with LG to combat Apple and Google with its own device
#5> their infrastructures have been reduced to that of a dumb pipe
This is a bad thing how? As far as I can see, carriers have far too much control over the devices that are used on their networks. I can't imagine consumers opting for devices where carriers have EVEN GREATER control!
It's consumers who buy the device, not carriers.
Re: Mozilla partners up with LG to combat Apple and Google with its own device
#6> their infrastructures have been reduced to that of a dumb pipe This is a bad thing how? As far as I can see, carriers have far too much control over the devices that are used on their networks. I can't imagine consumers opting for devices where carriers have EVEN GREATER control! It's consumers who buy the device, not carriers.
Except in the case of subsidized devices.
Re: Mozilla partners up with LG to combat Apple and Google with its own device
#7As much as I appreciate the efforts to build a successful, truly open mobile OS, the "browser as an OS" approach is an incredibly dumb idea. It's another step away from general purpose computing, and I don't like this direction one bit. Some people here on HN might not really want to hear this, but web apps aren't the future. You just fundamentally cannot put everything on the web. It works for incredibly simple things. But that's it.
What would interest me more in B2G is whether the Linux base underneath it is fully functional. And not just a slightly advanced "bootloader" for B2G. A fully functional, mostly free GNU/Linux system that gets widespread adoption, even just as a smartphone OS, would be a great blessing to the efforts of the Free Software community.
Re: Mozilla partners up with LG to combat Apple and Google with its own device
#8So Mozilla's fully open "Boot to Gecko" will power the carriers walled garden "fully closed" wet dreams?
There's a lot of inaccuracies in the article and that's one of them. There's also this:
> Basically, B2G is just a cut-down version of Linux that automatically loads Firefox; basically, it’s like Chrome OS, but lower tech.
How is it "lower tech"?
Re: Mozilla partners up with LG to combat Apple and Google with its own device
#9As much as I appreciate the efforts to build a successful, truly open mobile OS, the "browser as an OS" approach is an incredibly dumb idea. It's another step away from general purpose computing, and I don't like this direction one bit. Some people here on HN might not really want to hear this, but web apps aren't the future . You just fundamentally cannot put everything on the web. It works for incredibly simple thi…
"Browser-based" does not have to be synonymous with "web apps".
You could also see it as giving up control over your local cache of (photos, mails, apps, etc) in exchange for ease of use. This could replace "I want to play Angry Birds, so I download it and then run it" by "I want to play Angry Birds, so I click this button". Then, your device could download the app, if it was not already cached on your device, and run it.
Re: Mozilla partners up with LG to combat Apple and Google with its own device
#10So Mozilla's fully open "Boot to Gecko" will power the carriers walled garden "fully closed" wet dreams?
There's a lot of inaccuracies in the article and that's one of them. There's also this: > Basically, B2G is just a cut-down version of Linux that automatically loads Firefox; basically, it’s like Chrome OS, but lower tech. How is it "lower tech"?
Heya; I wrote the story.
I agonized about leaving in that 'lower tech' bit. Basically, B2G is built on the Android kernel. Chrome OS has a ton of security features that aren't present in Android. By 'lower tech', I mean that B2G won't have Chrome OS's verified boot, double sandbox, and other tweaks like that.
(Though I suppose B2G could have those eventually!)