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This is actually a battle cry for Mozilla. The desktop GUI paradigm is done for, it's at the end of the line. Once desktops die off in popularity there will b
by wavephorm 15y ago
This is actually a battle cry for Mozilla. The desktop GUI paradigm is done for, it's at the end of the line. Once desktops die off in popularity there will be no growth for web browsers like Firefox unless they own the whole stack like Apple and Google have successfully done, and Microsoft and RIM are attempting to do. Mozilla is developing Boot2Gecko because without expanding into a full mobile platform Mozilla is in a really tough spot in the smartphone/tablet markets. Predictions for the future put Apple/Safari at 45% marketshare, Google/Android at 54% marketshare, and the 1% scraps left over for RIM, Microsoft and now Mozilla.
Mozilla will to have sell an awful lot of these phones for their organization to be viable in the future.
- eli_gottlieb 15y agoI'm sorry, desktop GUI applications are done for. Someone please notify my entire computer setup of its impending death. Also, my wife, my mother, my brother, my stepfather, my father, and everyone else I know. Hey, everyone, your computers are dead! It's time to convert to WebSmartiPhonePadTablets running nothing but web-browsers! Sure, you don't want to because they run like crap compared to actually writing native programs, but they're a growth market for corporate behemoths!
- wavephorm 15y agoAh yeah I should have expected such pedantry on HackerNews. You know very well I didn't mean you were going to stop using Windows immediately. I said nothing of the sort. You didn't even have the respect to read anything else I said or even acknowledge that I said anything else. Instead you pointlessly nitpicked at a generalization and added nothing to this thread.