Mozilla Urging Developers to Build Apps For Firefox OS
Uses Apple's charge of 30 percent toll as advantage.
Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's vice president of products, has explained why developers should have an interest in Firefox OS.
"If you're looking to build and develop mobile software without the 30 percent toll [Apple charges], Firefox OS will appeal to you," he told a room filled with about 75 developers.
Sullivan continued on to stress that Mozilla has created a way (a "payments API") for regular web browsers to handle payments in the same way that native mobile applications do. Due to this, Mozilla expects this development to spearhead the creation of multiple app stores.
Referring to the developer method of testing two different options with users, he said, "You can't do A/B testing in the iOS app store".
Sullivan added that the learning curve for any operating system that wants to compete with Apple's iOS and Google's Android should be straightforward and easy to for developers to familiarize themselves with.
"No new ecosystem will emerge unless it doesn't require developers to learn a lot of new stuff." Firefox OS is built entirely on HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, which are code frameworks that developers already have experience with, he added.
"Microsoft will be the last to experiment with proprietary native code," said Mozilla's director of research Andreas Gal. "It will either fail and make Apple and Google the only two to have successful private systems, or it will succeed and it will take longer for them to go away."

Mozilla releases the source code for Firefox, and some developers modify it to make Waterfox.
Also what's all this bashing? I thought that you all wanted competition?
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Waterfox
Mozilla releases the source code for Firefox, and some developers modify it to make Waterfox.
Also what's all this bashing? I thought that you all wanted competition?
So the only apps you can build are webapps or they'll run like crap and can't do anything interesting. Yea no way this could go wrong.
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Until games stop running on 32bit xp I think Mozilla has no worries and a good amount of time to get their 64bit going. Until you can't buy 32bit anything, they have enough time to get their 64bitness act together. We don't even have phones/tablets with more than 2gb of main memory yet. Hard to argue you need 64bit on your device other than a PC in some environments (obviously, but we're talking a web browser here right now, not crysis 3 or something). Most have no idea what 64bit gets them. I'd venture to guess most people wouldn't know the difference in a "pepsi vs. coke" (64b vs. 32b browser) test side by side. I'd guess only 10% would say that's definitely the 64bit version right there...LOL. Most would probably ask what they're supposed to be looking for, or just say both are the same "which one is the 64bit one?"...Heck adobe just got 64bit flash, and it's already dead as people start avoid flash and adobe doesn't even support it now on mobile. I'm not saying I wouldn't like EVERYTHING to be 64bit; just that it's actually NEEDED for very few things (mostly business apps) today. There are a crap load of people with 4GB or less memory still (unfortunately we can't just tell everyone, look pal, pony up $40 bucks for 8gb). For a lot of people 8-16GB support means a new board. I wish memory makers would just stop making 1-2GB modules and force the world to 16-32 (4x4GB, or 4x8GB) but I guess asking people for $70-75 is too much on a PC price (whatever).
IE, we have a little more time before we really need to complain about 64bit and browsers. Office 2010 is barely 64bit, with a lot of addons/extensions still being given up (last I checked) so all we really have is some pro apps and win7/server 2008/2012. I don't call win8 an OS
So no, I think we have a bit before we need to dog Firefox browser or OS and FREE apps. Anything free will go a long ways in this current windows world even vs. the ability for me to upgrade my current lics for $40 to win8. NO thank you MS. If this new OS has excellent WebGL/HTML5 (and I'd hope OpenGL for games or at least openCL) support bring it on. Whatever brings the death of DirectX and Flash I welcome. I'm not willing to keep paying MS for the next directX and thankfully win8's failure ensures DX11 will be around for a while and I don't see anything magical yet in 11.1
http://obamapacman.com/2010/04/3d-fps-quake-2-engine-html5-port-adobe-flash-quake-in-fears/
Quake 2 ported to HTML 5 (webgl and javascript). A step behind today, but this was created with google's free time...LOL and this in 2010 hitting 30fps on laptops then. What can a REAL design team fully dedicated do today?
Google AVES game engine for some pretty cool pics of that engine. There are others that look promising too and this is just kicking off. The sooner Directx/flash die the better! Just google "html5 game engine", then click the images to see pics of different game engines. Linux/valve look to take a big bite out of DirectX soon also as Valve ports games as fast as they can to kill directX since they hate win8