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Mozilla just announced development and future launch of what they have wanted to call Firefox OS, a new operating system focused on the world of mobile devices (currently talking about smartphones) that would see the light in 2013. |
Mozilla has confirmed that its mobile operating system, Firefox Mobile OS, will be released in early 2013 on Alcatel and ZTE terminals. In addition, the main telecommunications companies, including Telefónica, Deutsche Telekom and Sprint, have confirmed that they will support this new open source platform based on HTML5, which promises to increase competition between iOS and Android.
The broad support of telecommunication companies and phone manufacturers is crucial for any new smart phone platform that wants to take off. This is a market increasingly dominated by Google's Android software, which has a market share of around 60 percent.
In addition to the Android and iOS market leaders, a number of small players such as RIM, Microsoft, and Bada are also competing for market share.
The truth is that phone companies have tried before to create platforms to fight the growing dominance of Android, but so far they have failed, since they had to create the ecosystem around the platform from scratch. Creating a system involves manufacturing the development tools, applications, the developer community.
The sector has seen the disappearance of many of the rival platforms in recent years, including those run by the operator LiMo, but also Palm's WebOS and Nokia's Symbian operating system, which did not get enough support from developers and manufacturers. of devices.
Mozilla's new platform aims to solve the problem by reaching out to a large community of web developers. Also, most applications are already built in HTML5, the preferred standard for creating mobile browser content.
The free Firefox Mobile OS platform could put pressure on Microsoft and Google, which in turn are trying to attract mobile phone makers. However, Microsoft charges license fees of up to $ 20 per Windows phone and also collects royalties from Android device manufacturers.
Source: Bilib.es & mozilla-blog
Well, I don't even use Firefox anymore. I use Chrome. I don't think I will be particularly interested in an OS from them. I do appreciate their work and honor their legacy in the open source community.
Exactly a linux but mobil!
Android is based on Linux, but the company behind Android is undoubtedly one of those that knows the best to take advantage of the information it takes from users, first google, youtube, then android, now google play (music, videos, movies and apps) and now google drive, google has all the information of all the users of these services, and where is the privacy and security of the users?
finally a spyware-free operating system like carrier IQ I hope that firefox OS is free of that application, that it does not require many resources and can be installed on any terminal