Mozilla’s Boot To Gecko Becomes Firefox OS, Scores Support From Sprint, Deutsche Telekom, ZTE, And More | TechCrunch

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Mozilla’s Boot To Gecko Becomes Firefox OS, Scores Support From Sprint, Deutsche Telekom, ZTE, And More | TechCrunch:

The more-or-less official launch of what started at Boot 2 Gecko.  The big news here is the likelihood of an explosion in very low cost smartphones, and the first deployment of a stateless operating system for the mobile space (link is to all the Infrics.com stateless coverage, including a curated list of Boot 2 Gecko articles.) Firefox OS has the potential to be for smart phones what Chrome OS is for computers.

Mozilla's Boot 2 Gecko: "we want a competitive advantage for the web"

Today's important quote, from the FAQ at Boot 2 Gecko, Mozilla's effort to build a stateless mobile operating system.

"We don't want B2G to lead to applications that only run atop B2G, or only run in Firefox. That's an important difference between what we're doing and proprietary mobile stacks today: we don't want a competitive advantage for Mozilla, we want a competitive advantage for the Web."

Click the "Stateless Future" tab above for all the Infrics.com coverage of stateless devices, including a thread about Boot 2 Gecko.

Mozilla: Brazilians to get first phones running Boot to Gecko -- Engadget

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Mozilla: Brazilians to get first phones running Boot to Gecko -- Engadget:

Here's an update on Mozilla's Boot 2 Gecko project, the stateless mobile phone.  Since one of the biggest promises of the B2G project is smartphones cheap enough for emerging economies, it's a surprise to see the prediction that the Brazilian deployment will not be a low-cost phone.

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from Read Write Web: an update on Mozilla's plans for a stateless phone

Sample screens from Boot 2 Gecko. Image from readwriteweb.com

Stateless devices--lightweight operating systems running web-based applications--are one of the three Big Ideas infrics.com covers.  I think they are the genuine wave of the future; Google's Chrome OS is the first to market, but you may recall I reported last summer that Mozilla was at work on a stateless phone, Boot 2 Gecko.

I asked Mozilla to let me talk with the B2G team when I visited silicon valley in August, and they refused.  Since then, Mozilla has been somewhat more forthcoming and Read Write Web has found out more: here is their report.

This could be big, and I wanted to let you know right away.  Remember, the defining characteristic of a well-delivered service is that the people who use it don't have to know or care where it came from, just that it works.  If that can be made to happen on a mobile phone, the disruptive influence--and the benefits to users--could be seismic.  Let's keep an eye on Mozilla.