Le 20/11/2013 08:55, an a écrit : > 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... >
I don't see how the quoted text says something different? -- Julien
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