Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets

Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by hiphopyo on Monday February 24, 2014 @12:02PM (#7291830)

Is this where Android / iOS devs start wishing they'd gone with HTML5 / JS instead?

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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by camus2 on Monday February 24, 2014 @02:59PM (#7293052)

I hope so, that way there will be less devs on these Apple/Google stores, script kiddies can go back toying with HTML5 on 25$ hansets for third world countries while serious developpers get more clients from Europe/Northen America with fast native apps on high end devices, A win-win ! Please move to HTML5 quickly,trust me you'll love it.

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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by _random_ on Monday February 24, 2014 @06:07PM (#7294027)

Let's call it HTML5-phone or JS-phone from now on! Future consumers deserve to know why it's slow and the apps are crappy.

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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by pekk on Monday February 24, 2014 @12:42PM (#7292127)

Only if they aren't making good money on Android/iOS and actually start to make good money on FirefoxOS, which hasn't happened yet and might never happen

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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by Raphael on Monday February 24, 2014 @06:59PM (#7294235)

They already had to port their apps or miss out on half the market. If say browser-based phones take 1/3 of the market, then an HTML/JS app will reach the whole, whereas iOS/Obj-C and Android/Java only reach 1/3 each.

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