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April 16, 2013 04:08 am GMT

Why Is Mozilla Building a Mobile OS?

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Mozilla's resigning CEO Gary Kovacs may be stepping down, but he's still passionate about transforming the mobile space and believes “the line between a browser, web page and an app should just go away."

Kovacs took the stage at All Things D’s Dive Into Mobile conference in New York City on Monday to explain why Firefox is building its own mobile operating system, especially in a space where upstart mobile OSes have trouble thriving, and to talk about his decision to leave Mozilla before the end of this year.

The key to understanding why phones bearing the Firefox OS will arrive in five European countries this summer is to look at where the next 2 billion mobile users will come from. As Kovacs sees it, those new mobile users are, in the next four-to-seven years, coming from the developing world, in places where the majority of the population is below the poverty line and doesn't have access to the same kind of powerful hardware found, for example, in the U.S. Read more...

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