They can go to hell... I don't see why I need a "platform" instead of a browser to surf the internets. Smartphones already have a bunch of "apps" which aren't really needed because the browser does exactly the same thing... And if Win8 is really trying to do the same thing - either you're wrong about it and you should get your facts straight, or you're right and I smiply won't use this feature.
With this kind of BS, I hope Firefox stays on top and keeps the web "open and available", as they state in the "About Firefox" menu =)I don't want to use some stupid "apps" to access websites... all of that can be done in one program.
In other words, yet another step to try and control the web.
Mozilla has a train as well, but it is a slow train that can't carry as many passengers and few people know about that train and its arrival and departure times.
Yes, because it's a luxury train that not everybody can board.
This time, Mozilla needs to compete with Google, Apple, Microsoft and most likely Facebook as well. Its products need to be compelling and powerful enough to make an open platform the more attractive alternative to Google's and Apple's walled gardens.
Compelling and powerful? Just keep the ability to surf the web without degrading to dozens of "apps", like we still do in normal browsers, and you've already won me and millions of others. These fools just don't understand... we don't need "walled gardens" and some "appeal", we just want a BROWSER - not a bunch of "apps". Keep that crap to the smartphones, though they aren't needed there either.
the very software we use to navigate the Internet, but a software that many of us don't use anymore on smartphones and a software may be turned into irrelevance as apps become more important. In a likely scenario, the browser will be an enabler of apps, but it may be turned into an occasional app, as it is the case on your phone today.
I just don't get it... WHY do these people keep telling us what BS will "most likely" happen, while nobody really needs it, and why do the stupid consumers believe them?!
If Apple and Google have their way, a future consumer Internet will be app-driven and mostly comprised of locked down environments that can be controlled by them. The motivations range from Apple's tight ecosystem to Google's advertising revenues that are leveraged by a product environment that promotes the use of Google products and locks other out.
Add to that equation Microsoft, which is trying to catch up with Windows 8 and establish a similar model next year and you, as a consumer, have a choice between three great environments.
You know what? **** them ALL! I don't see what's so appealing about these "great environments"... sounds like another trap to me, on par with cloud BS.
Anybody watched a movie called "Idiocracy"? Well, follow the apps and clouds, and that's where you'll end up.
I didn't look at the article author until I've finished reading it and somehow wasn't surprised at all when I finally saw Gruener's name... This is the stupidest article from him by far. He looks like a massive troll to me, he really does. Or maybe Google and Apple pay him to publish that $h!t. Most likely, the latter... might've been as well Steve Jobs or one the Google CEOs speaking: the whole article calls you to abandon the normal, comfortable way of surfing the net and instead tries to convince you to choose from "great new environments", while presenting NO arguments whatsoever except the fact that "Google, MS and Apple are all doing it".
Mozilla, if you can do something to ruin their plans, that'd be simply great.
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