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Mozilla brews browserless iPhone apps

Mozilla is tinkering with multiple applications for the Apple iPhone. And no, that doesn't include a Firefox browser. "There is something of the Firefox and Mozilla experience that might be possible on the iPhone - that isn't the Firefox browser. We've got some people prototyping some ideas that may end up becoming iPhone …

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Anonymous Coward
Headmaster

Mozilla are right

iPhoney is a relatively closed platform, despite the number of apps.

deive
Boffin

A title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

Technically you could release a web browser as HTML is not "run" - although you wouldn't be allowed to run javascript, which would limit the usefulness to an extent...

Anti-Apple
Paris Hilton

Apple who.......

Just can't wait till Apple are forced to open up the platform to third party developers without having to use Itunes and been approved by the App store and all this malarky. It will happen, it is just a matter of when.

I really hope Apple get a serious telling off from the European Anti Trust regulators because this is stifling developers who want to build apps for this platform but who don't want to give 25 % of their apps turnover to Apple.

Paris, because she is always open (dunno if she charges though :)

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

re A title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

Technically you could release a web browser as HTML is not "run" - although you wouldn't be allowed to run javascript, which would improve security no end...

Fixed it for ya.

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Anonymous Coward
FAIL

Other browser

FUD: "If you agree to their SDK, you cannot build another browser."

Then what are those tens of other browsers that you can buy or download for free from the App Store? Not browsers?

This statement is complete bollocks.

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