Comments on: With Mobile, Firefox Buys Into the Browser and Scorns Apps http://gigaom.com/2010/02/03/with-mobile-firefox-buys-into-the-browser-and-scorns-apps/ Sun, 26 May 2013 02:45:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Niraj http://gigaom.com/2010/02/03/with-mobile-firefox-buys-into-the-browser-and-scorns-apps/#comment-238875 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:09:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=96613#comment-238875 I wasn’t implying development itself has taken over 2 years. But the current effort with Fennec on Windows Mobile did begin in November of 2007 (or earlier), and you can see the periodic progress appear in the weekly status calls:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes

In fact to your point, in their most recent status from Feb. 3rd, they do even mention: “Get some focus on Windows Mobile”. But that’s exactly my point. The Windows Mobile effort has not had as much focus and is still in the alpha phase (it’s near Alpha 4 now), so if the Android effort is to follow that as this article suggests, it will really be a long time before we’ll see anything for Android.

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]]> By: Al Jigen Billings http://gigaom.com/2010/02/03/with-mobile-firefox-buys-into-the-browser-and-scorns-apps/#comment-238873 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:37:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=96613#comment-238873 Niraj, the current Windows Mobile version has not been in development for two years. There have been starts on development and then restarts as people figured out what to do with necessary problems. The project as a whole has been going on for a while but Maemo and Windows Mobile have been progressing in tandem while Maemo got more attention recently leading up to its 1.0 release.

]]> By: johnolilly at 02/03/10 10:41:49 | Exectweets http://gigaom.com/2010/02/03/with-mobile-firefox-buys-into-the-browser-and-scorns-apps/#comment-238872 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:58:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=96613#comment-238872 [...] gets the long game we’re playing. http://gigaom.com/2010/02/03/with-mobile-firefox-buys-into-the-browser-and-scorns-apps/ johnolilly – Wed 03 Feb 22:41 previous next SandForce: Better [...]

]]> By: Niraj http://gigaom.com/2010/02/03/with-mobile-firefox-buys-into-the-browser-and-scorns-apps/#comment-238871 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:51:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=96613#comment-238871 To emphasize your last point, the Windows Mobile version has been in progress for over 2 years, and they’re still on Alpha 3, so I don’t know how eager I would be as an Android user to see Firefox on my phone anytime soon. Obviously this is a large undertaking and I know they’re trying to make it work well and fit into their build processes, work with extensions, etc., but it is taking a very long time. And that’s even more noticable in the mobile space, where apps and platforms are evolving very quickly.

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