The team over at Wired have posted a very interesting article with Mozilla’s CEO, John Lilly about a number of topics. One of the topics that came up was iPhone and the easy somebody like Mozilla would have developing for it:
Wired: Are you going to develop a version of Firefox for the iPhone?
Lilly: No. Apple makes it too hard. They say it’s because of technical issues — they don’t want outsiders to disrupt the user experience. That’s a business argument masquerading as a technological argument. We’re focusing on more important stuff. The iPhone has been influential, but there’s not that many of them. We’re part of the LiMo Foundation — Linux on Mobile. The Razr V2 is a LiMo phone, and you’ll see more in the next year or so.
I do understand Apple’s need to “control the experience” with the iPhone, and hey… who knows, this could really open some doors for other phones and mobile devices. Also Apple isn’t going to want to take away from Safari which for me as a Windows user has not been much than bundle-ware with iTunes.
Check out the full interview with Lilly: The Mozilla CEO on His Firefox Strategy, His Google Gambit, and Working With Apple
Pretty much the same reason that there is no Java / Flash on the iPhone. They all of their base to belong to them.
Well I was sick of Firefox crashing on Vista so I went to Safari. So far, so good.
OK, if the Photoshopped image in the article is NOT a reason to be happy Firefox won’t be on iPhones…
Wasn’t Motorola talking about selling off it’s cell phone operations?
Ender,
LOL….4 sure…a great example of people that just don’t get it!
Now that the NDA for RELEASED software has been lifted, any chance on this topic being revisited?