Lets just say that's close enough for purposes of this discussion. :) The open web technologies part is the key. The idea is that if we provide consistent APIs across many platforms and containers (you can use the same app in a browser or installed on a phone) then that investment allows a large audience of web developers to build a single app that can run on many different devices w/o porting.
We may or may not have a Mozilla app store, but that is not a primary objective ATM. Lucas. On Mar 15, 2012, at 6:03 AM, ianG wrote: > On 15/03/12 12:54 PM, Lucas Adamski wrote: >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/OpenWebApps has some good info. >> >> But in terms of business objectives, I'll do a terrible job of paraphrasing >> the mission: maximize participation in the >> open web. This means breaking up the app silos by maximizing the number of >> possible devices, developers, app stores, >> and overall participation in the app ecosystem. Its the ability to get apps >> from any number of stores, and run them on >> any number and types of devices. All based upon open web standards >> technologies. >> Lucas. > > Hi Lucas, > > thanks for that. So I was close, but no banana. Tricky... that introduces a > number of business conundrums which will resolve somehow or other. Skipping > over those for now, concentrating on the objective. > > Is the business objective > > to create an ecosystem where anyone can mount an app store > for a wide variety of customers (devices, users, sources) > > ? And in this way promote the open web? > > > (To some extent, these terms are intermingled and synonymousand subtly > different: objectives, goals, missions, etc. I'm not going there...) > > > > iang > _______________________________________________ > dev-security mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
