Intro to Firefox OS

1. FIREFOX OS
Bringing the Open Web to Mobile Devices
Sumanth Damarla
Firefox App Developer Mentor
twitter: @Sumanth_Damarla – damarla.sumanth@gmail.com

2. TODAY

3. Mobile Industry is DOMINATED by
PROPRIETARY Mobile Platforms

4. TOMORROW

5. FIREFOX OS
Built entirely using HTML5
& standard Web APIs without
the need for an intermediate
OS layer
Complete, standalone
operating system for the open
Web

6. Create Customized & Differentiated
User Experiences (everything is a Web
app)
Variations around the Home
screen
Variations around
the dialer

7. Firefox OS: How an Open Web
Phone connects HTML5 to
hardware
Web
Browser/
Platform
Native API-based
UI
APIs
Kernel
(e.g. Android, iOS,
Win7, etc.)
Device
(phone, tablet,
desktop)
Web-based User
Experience/Web
Content
Web Engine/
Standard Device
APIs
Kernel
Device
Existing Platforms
(smartphones only) Firefox OS
Significantly
smaller stack:
Scales from
high-end
feature phones to
high-end
smartphones }

8. Create amazing HTML5 experiences
FIREFOX
MARKETPLACE
DEVELOPERS
Content owners maintain direct
connection to their audience
Enhanced discoverability
Easy payment & built-in
Carrier billing
Revenue sharing
CARRIERS
and apps

9. Developers can write Apps & Services for
ONE Platform – the Web
• Web Apps based on HTML5
• Developers will no longer
need to learn and develop
against platform-specific
native APIs
• Write Apps & Services for one
platform – the Web
8 Million
More developers
than any
other platform
450,000
+
100,000+

10. An affordable
smartphone: brings the
smartphone experience
at a feature phone
price point
CONNECT TO
THE WEB
Tons of apps
to choose from:
the Web is the
limit!
FOR USERS

11. Welcome to a new, open and powerful
mobile world!
More info:
•marketplace.mozilla.org
•developer.mozilla.org/Mobile
@Sumanth_Damarla