New platform: Firefox OS
Firefox OS (formerly boot-to-Gecko) is a soon-to-be-released platform for low-end smartphones for emerging markets. It combines a stripped-down Android base (called Gonk) with Gecko (the Firefox render engine) and Gaia, a client layer written entirely in HTML5. The Mozilla Foundation is making some apps available for the commercial release, including HERE Maps, created by Nokia, but HERE is not a very good mapping solution, it lacks turn-by-turn navigation and the interface is overall a mess. Waze could really benefit from being the first turn-by-turn navigation solution to come to a platform and, in its turn, Firefox OS really needs a killer app like turn-by-turn navigation if it intends to thrive. The programming part should be relatively easy, since it only involves standards-compliant HTML.
So, these are my two cents. What do you think?
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Tomas
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Absolutely yes. FFOS could promote Waze.
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Anonymous
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That would be the only base requirement missing to Firefox OS. But building such an app would not only profit to FFOS, but also to any platform !
It wouldn't be easy, but there is a lot of potential.Well, that would be awesome.
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Anonymous
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I'd really love Waze for Firefox OS