Mozilla Firefox Mobile — the iPhone AppStore killer?
Posted by iPhoneWorld on December 30th, 2009 at 03:15pm Comments
Mozilla’s latest browser, Firefox Mobile, could be the iPhone AppStore killer… or so says Mozilla.
The company is due to premiere its Firefox Mobile browser (codename: Fennec) on on the Nokia N900 mobile phone, and it’s feeling bullish about its future with planned releases on Android and WM platforms next year.
Mozilla claims that its new javascript engine is the fastest on the market, which will allow developers to create complex yet universally accepted web apps that could push traditional “specialized” smartphone apps (that have to be created independently for each mobile platform and even device) off the market.
In an interview to PCPro UK, Jay Sullivan, Mozilla’s Mobile department VP said: “[Currently] you have to create an iPhone app, an Android app, a Windows Mobile app… As developers get more frustrated with quality assurance, the amount of handsets they have to buy, whether their security updates will get past the iPhone approval process… I think they’ll move to the web.”
“Anyone who knows JavaScript and HTML can develop a great app without having to learn a specific mobile platform,” he added.
So could FireFox Mobile dethrone the AppStore and other similar specialized apps stores? While one might think it’s unlikely since Firefox will never control 100% of the mobile browsing market, it remains to be seen whether other major internet browser software manjufacturers will follow suit with optimized-for-all interfaces for mobile web apps.
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