From Electronista:
“Mozilla mobile VP Jay Sullivan in an interview Thursday made the aggressive claim that Firefox Mobile will put an end to app stores like the iPhone’s App Store or BlackBerry App World. As the smartphone web browser will share much of the desktop Firefox’s engine and render both complex HTML and JavaScript, the senior employee anticipates many developers opting to write web apps instead of producing native code”
Sure. I think Jay hasn’t realized developers don’t actually make money from the App Store. The problem is not Firefox mobile killings the App Store, the problem are developers ditching the App Store in favor of Mobile Safari.
That’s what we should talk about.
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That's what Mathias Bynens said 8 months ago:
Will Apple allow Firefox Mobile to run on the iPhone? I doubt it.
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storiesofmac Reply:
December 19th, 2009
@Mathias Bynens, Apple will never allow it. Mozilla claims Firefox Mobile itself will kill both iPhone OS and the App Store.
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Kevin Reply:
December 20th, 2009
@storiesofmac, Wouldn’t the FTC have something to say about it in terms of anti-competitive practices laws?
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That's what Aaron said 8 months ago:
I love it when executives for a certain company make these broad sweeping claims regarding their product when they really have no idea what they are talking about.
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That's what TrojanCentaur said 4 months ago:
Wow… it seems Mozilla executives are playing the ‘Proof by assertion’ game… "because I’m so confident in this product, it MUST be good!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion
Sheesh, I thought Mozilla at least would have been better than that…
TC
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