New Firefox OS Images

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Interesting. It looks nice enough, but I wonder how well it will be able to differentiate itself from Android?

I guess, at any rate, it's good to have some more competition in the mobile space.

Yes - I think "interesting" is the right word here. To me it somehow looks like a mix of elements of Windows Phone, Android but also iOS - But I welcome the idea of having a html5-friendy mobile ecosystem, even if the design is yet questionable.

"how well it will be able to differentiate itself from Android"

I think, two reasons:

1. Its a browser, so no native code. This will attract more developers. Building apps will be easy for web developers.

2. Companies like HTC, Samsung. They will try to go with this and not with Google's Android.

Virtually all Firefox OS apps should also run on Android (maybe with a trivial wrapper), but Android apps will not run on Firefox OS. This sounds like a problem for developer adoption.

I would also say that building Web apps is easier only if you don't care about the resulting quality (e.g. buttery smoothness).

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