On 10/02/2016 11:57, Benjamin Francis wrote: > 3/ What's the benefit for the Web and/or Mozilla's mission? > > > As others have mentioned, I think it's a shame that just as the web > platform is reaching the point where a browser based OS is a feasible > proposition, Mozilla has had to scale down our efforts in that area. > Unfortunately web standards move more slowly than many product > lifecycles. I think the technology landscape is finally where we need it > to be and a browser-based tablet could help demonstrate the power of the > web as a platform, and play a role in the Web of Things in your home. I > feel strongly that Mozilla needs to be in this space, if nothing else to > have a voice at the table when it comes to standardisation.
I also think that the tablet market is ripe for a radical move to the web, probably a lot more than the phone market was. Let me elaborate on that: I've got a tablet which I don't use as my primary device neither for communicating (I've got a phone for that) nor for producing and consuming most information (I prefer my desktop) but I've got a few use cases where the tablet comes in handy: 1) Reading documents, it's usually PDFs which I've loaded on a cloud storage service (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc...) 2) Reading the news / articles in tech press 3) Reading my e-mail (but not responding to it) 4) Watching videos What does these four things have in common? I could do *all* of them from within a browser. Currently I use a browser only for 2) because native apps for the other three work better (though I often find myself watching movies directly within Firefox) but none of the other uses needs a native app; they just need a good web app. There's a few extra things I do on my tablet which don't really have a replacement but those take probably less than 10% of the time I spend on it: games and making video calls. The latter might be done from within a web app but the former aren't going anywhere possibly because of the lack of a commercial distribution mechanism for web apps similar to the major app stores. Now, I'm sure there are also different use-cases for tablets and I don't want to generalize my experience but I am fairly confident that 90%+ of what I do on my device could be done using existing web technologies. Gabriele
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