Firefox OS: Disruptive By Aiming Low

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As Apple launches a new slightly-improved iPhone 5, Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich says if you want a really disruptive phone (http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/firefox-os-html5-mozilla-eich-iphone-5-92412) you should look to Firefox OS (http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/07/17/2036204/firefox-os-will-win-big-with-developers---mozilla). It's a low-cost low-end device — and that's the point. It uses standards so should be resistant to patent infringement suits, it will fit on featurephone-grade hardware, and it will run HTML5 apps without the restriction of native apps in an app store. In other words, it's aiming for the next 2 billion smartphone users, people who can't afford the iPhone/Android model."Reader rawkes has some (very warm) thoughts about Firefox OS (http://rawkes.com/articles/there-is-something-magical-about-firefox-os), too, which helpfully includes both screenshots and a video demo.

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