The Promise of Firefox OS
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The Promise of Firefox OS
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#2I would have liked to have heard a story like this one at FOSDEM. You had a room full of interested IT people/devs/... and missed selling the 'spirit' of fOS. Too bad...
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#3Good article. The main reason for FFOS is not to take over the world but rather disrupt the closed ecosystems that Google, Apple and Microsoft are creating; the same way that Firefox broke Microsofts monopoly on the browser market.
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#4Glad to see this coming out - I think the technical chutzpah of FirefoxOS is fantastic, now let's see Mozilla Market it in the same clear vision and spirit.
I mean I simply did not know there was an emulator (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/12/firefox-os-simulator-1-0-i...) until this post, and honestly I looked.
Edit: oh and can someone tell me if persona is taking off or not - are there stats from login.persona.org?
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#5I'm really excited for Firefox OS, but I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because I have a lot of respect for Mozilla and the high quality of their software. Having a fresh ecosystem is always going to attract developers who haven't bothered with the current platforms due to overcrowding (among other things), even if it never rivals the size of Android/iOS.
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#6Good article. The main reason for FFOS is not to take over the world but rather disrupt the closed ecosystems that Google, Apple and Microsoft are creating; the same way that Firefox broke Microsofts monopoly on the browser market.
Curiously, Google has produced another (enterprisey) system than disrupts the (more) closed Android system ... GWT. If you like the strong typing of Java, compiling it to Javascript seems "safe".
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#7Can FirefoxOS run on top of android or iOS, or is that lower level?
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#8There are plenty of js/html frameworks for mobile. That mission was (and is??) the _promise_ of webOS. So I don't see how you can say "even in the unlikely event that Firefox OS itself disappears in the process, if web-apps become mainstream it will have succeeded" since it's far from a controlled experiment.
Mozilla always seems to have the same answer to "what if we just started from scratch": which is "let's do it". It's endearing I guess.
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#9Can FirefoxOS run on top of android or iOS, or is that lower level?
The applications can, through Firefox for Android. That means that if you use WebAPIs that access phone internals, it will work just fine.
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#10There are plenty of js/html frameworks for mobile. That mission was (and is??) the _promise_ of webOS. So I don't see how you can say "even in the unlikely event that Firefox OS itself disappears in the process, if web-apps become mainstream it will have succeeded" since it's far from a controlled experiment. Mozilla always seems to have the same answer to "what if we just started from scratch": which is "let's do it…
One big difference here is that Firefox OS (just like PhoneGap/Cordova) is aiming at standardizing the APIs, not at just being another framework.
That by itself will make the web richer regardless of how FFOS fares on the market.