On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 4:54:33 AM UTC+2, Aaron Cajes (Mozilla PHL) wrote:
> Q: Why do you think Firefox OS is important? > A: Here are a few reasons. > Firefox OS kills the idea of mobile Web connectivity only being for the rich > in the western world. Yes, for those in the US or the UK having a new shiny > phone every half year is not an issue. But that is just not affordable to > everyone, and even if it was, in many countries if you have no credit card > you couldn’t even buy apps for those phones. This is unfair, elitist and > plainly against anything the web stands for. Firefox OS is affordable, and > apps can be bought on prepay or on your phone bill. > Firefox OS does not assume a fast, stable and always available connection. > When traveling I start hating my Android phone (which I love to bits > otherwise.) Having dozens of megabyte updates over roaming is out of the > question and neither is using flaky and slow wireless connections. Firefox OS > has no native apps – all of them, including the system apps are written in > HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Thus they are much smaller and can have atomic > updates instead of having to be replaced as a unit every single time. > Firefox OS is the web in your pocket. It is Firefox and nothing else (other > than a Linux core to access the hardware). Thus I will not be told to > “download the native app” when I go to Web sites that are perfectly fine to > use. > Firefox OS is the platform HTML5deserves. For developers, our HTML5 solutions > are finally first-class citizens. We are not shoved into a slower Web view > and told we can not access the hardware. > Firefox OS apps are Web-distributed apps. Users can go to the marketplace and > find our apps by hand or via review or they could search for a certain song, > movie, football team and dish and find our app that way. App discovery is as > simple as using the Web and finding Web sites. > Source: > http://blog.mozilla.org/theden/2013/07/12/what-firefox-os-means-for-you/ I really hate this kind of of bullshit which is half lies and half not answering the question. The only relationship between B2G and the web that makes it different from Android is the use of web specific "technologies" (to quote Mozilla), html, css and javascript to do basically the same thing. The advantage is that at least so far B2G requires less resources then Android, it's easier to develop and implement apps and/or to customize it. The idea that with B2G the web is in your pocket and for a lot less and that is gonna make poor people a lot happier is a big lie. This approach of constantly associating an OS with the web is totally misleading. B2G is just another way to skin a cat, maybe a nicer way... > > > if you can have all the app launchers in andriod > and is it just like a browser, but can launch web apps, like google chrome? > > > Everything you see and use on Firefox OS is basically a web app. > > > Plus, you can make an app in Firefox OS using web technologies. > > > Even the default phone launcher is a web app. Therefore, you can't run > Android launchers or Android widgets in Firefox OS because it's not Android > and Firefox OS is a different platform. > > > Hope this helps! > > > > Best Regards, > > Aaron Cajes > > Mozilla Rep in the Philippines > Mozilla Philippines Community > > www.aaroncajes.com > www.mozillaphilippines.org > > > > > From: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [b2g] Firefox os concept > > > i read more about the firefox os > to my understanding it is an os running on top of andriod and it is web based > and runs web apps > > i have a question > why the firefox os? > if you can have all the app launchers in andriod > and is it just like a browser, but can launch web apps, like google chrome? > > please correct me on my understanding of firefox os so i can contributr > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
