Firefox Mobile Threatens Mobile App Stores, Says Mozilla

Barence writes "Mozilla claims that its new Firefox Mobile browser could be the beginning of the end for the hugely popular app stores created by Apple and its ilk. Mozilla claims Firefox Mobile will have the fastest Javascript engine of any mobile browser, and that will allow developers to write apps once for the web, instead of multiple versions for the different mobile platforms. '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,' Mozilla's mobile VP, Jay Sullivan, told PC Pro. 'In the interim period, apps will be very successful. Over time, the web will win because it always does.'"

Comments

Re:Or Apple just blocks firefox from the iphone...

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throttleBandwidth( 50_PERCENT );

If you need to define a constant for fifty percent, then you need to work on your programming skills.

Re:no web browsers on iphone

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True. Apple doesn't want people to know how badly iphone Safari sucks in comparison. I say that as a happy iphone user. I was also using konqueror-embedded years before, and enjoyed it much more on an ipaq through an IR tether with my old nokia phone. Web browsing on iphone is the worst experience ever.