Can Firefox Compete with the Android OS, IOS, and WP

Firefox OS

CALIFORNIA - The boss of a big company like Apple, Google, and Microsoft is betting billions of dollars and thousands of highly paid technicians to operating system (OS) mobile besutannya. Although his predecessors have high stakes, do not be a barrier for Mozilla who also has plans to besutannya smartphone software.

The question is whether the company behind the Mozilla Firefox web browser, with revenues in 2011 amounting to USD121 million will actually compete with the big three mobile operating systems such pembesut. Given these three great before, enjoyed sales of more than $ 200 billion a year ago.

Reported by the Telegraph, Monday (7/23/2012), Mozilla reasons for taking part in the mobile operating system market pins. Desktop market share is falling, but still have a chance, especially since the biggest donors through a deal to make Google the default search engine for Firefox users.

In addition, the Mozilla browser is also facing tough competition with Chrome, which is enjoying rapid rise to the most popular web browser in the world.

While Mozilla has decreased in the market, smartphones and tablets are also seen as the most important computing platform today. "A lot of innovation or even that we see today mostly in smartphones and tablets," said Screen Digest analyst at IHS, he Fogg.

Mozilla's mission is to popularize the web standards and open source software. It also creates an alternative browser application, a rival such as IOS, Android, and Windows will not do.

Unfortunately, only the rules of Android that allows Mozilla to offer a fully mobile version of the browser. While Apple and Microsoft to keep control over third-party applications

Obviously, only a fraction of smartphone owners who switch from their default browser application. So to remain relevant, Mozilla makes its own mobile OS.

Such as Android, Firefox is also based on Linux OS operating system that everyone can contribute to or adapt the source code for free. But unlike Google's mobile OS, Firefox OS will not be host to the "original application" specifically dikembangakn for its mobile OS.

Instead, Firefox OS will use the new web standards HTML5 coding, so developers can create applications that could theoretically work on any operating system. Other smartphone OS's can run existing applications, but are usually less qualified than the original application because they can not plug into the software features and hardware.

"It (Firefox OS) to open a lot of the current limitations in mobile web development, which allows applications to access the basic capabilities of HTML5 a phone that was previously only available for the original application," said Fogg.

Regardless how the developers get paid for pekerjaannnya, Mozilla's mobile OS will open up the opportunity to make a simple application creation and very attractive to developers.