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Mozilla Plans Mobile App Store

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-of-many dept.

dkd903 writes "Mozilla wants to make it big in the Mobile world and has revealed its plans for a unique mobile app store in its annual report — 'The State of Mozilla,' which was released recently. Mozilla has already brought the desktop Firefox experience to mobile devices as the Fennec browser, which was initially launched for the Maemo platform on Nokia N900. Mozilla has designed a prototype of a mobile app store and plans to call it a 'Open Web App ecosystem.' The aim is to create an open app store platform that would consist of apps that can run on all mobile devices: — A 'Mobile Device Independent' App Store."

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  1. Already being done... by SuperKendall · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm sure Mozilla can do a good job, but there are already similar attempts underway - one is OpenAppMkt.

    I guess Mozilla has an advantage in that they can bundle it with the browser, but to me it seems more like mobile users would be using such a thing than desktop users, and I don't know of any mobile devices that ship with Mozilla as the default browser.

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  2. Re:Browser with JS device API + Open store by ducomputergeek · · Score: 2, Informative

    There needs to be a browser that exposes in JavaScript a common API for phone I/O: accelerometer, multi-touch, camera, GPS. etc.

    Um that part already exists: http://www.phonegap.com/

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  3. Re:I'd like a taste by icebraining · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's because you're still clinging to the idea that AAA games are the future. They're not even the present. The casual gaming market is growing immensely and has much better profit margins.

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