Firefox OS Re: Brightcove retreats from HTML5, pushes refreshed SDKs for native Android, iOS apps

John Foliot:
> If anyone thinks the DRM/Linux quandary is a problem today, what's
> going to happen to diversity in mobile platforms if content creators
> simply focus on the top 2 or 3 mobile platforms (or worse, the top
> 2)? How will this help Firefox OS?

Some material without comment from myself.

Kumar McMillan (Firefox OS developer) on apps and DRM:

"What we’re saying is that Mozilla does not offer complete Digital
Rights Management. You can protect against people using your paid app
without paying for it but it will never be 100% effective. We’re not
encrypting assets on the web with true DRM.

While this may be disappointing to some businesses our plan is to make
*paying* for apps very easy, easier than stealing them ;)"

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/02/building-a-paid-app-for-firefox-os/comment-page-1/#comment-2013336

I have seen this on arstechnica:

'Firefox OS doesn't offer options for purchase or rental of movies,
e-books, or other media. Eich said he expected this functionality to be
provided by third-party apps, but he couldn't share any details. He did
say that getting video streaming services like Netflix working on
Firefox OS was a priority. "We need to have Netflix work well in certain
locales," he told Ars. "We're going to have that work out of the box."'

Hands-on with Mozilla’s Web-based “Firefox OS” for smartphones
by Timothy B. Lee - Mar 27 2013
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/firefox-os-hands-on-mozillas-plan-to-build-on-top-of-the-web/2/

A comment by Brandan Eich on his blog:

"TVs are definitely on our radar but necessarily lower priority. First,
they are a harsher environment to target and win business partners. Many
are using a cut-down Android. Second, apps on the big screen are less
wanted by consumers. Third, the media companies and DRM get on our radar
sooner than we get leverage to advance a Mozilla user-centric DRM model.

"We will get there, but smartphones first, tablets second, and (perhaps
in parallel with tablets, else third) TVs and (let’s say) big screens."

https://brendaneich.com/2013/03/mwc-2013-firefox-os-and-more-web-api-evolution/#comment-13698

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Saturday, 6 April 2013 13:17:20 UTC