Mozilla has opened its own Mobile App Store called the Mozilla Marketplace, encouraging developers to build apps using build once run anywhere methodology!
Looks like the App Store game is getting crowded with Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon already into the App Store game. And now, Mozilla has launched the Mobile App Store for the Firefox called Mozilla Marketplace. The developers would be able to submit their apps which are primarily written with HTML5, CSS3 or JavaScript onto the app store and make it work across devices using Mozilla Firefox.
Talking more about the API that would be available, Mozilla has planned to provide its own APIs to the developers and make it easy to bring in apps onto the market. All the APIs would be W3C compliant and would be W3C standardized, so we can expect the apps to be web safe. The market would put the control over to the user to choose and install the apps rather than the device or a platform.
As we all know by this time, HTML5 and JS have become the most widely used write once and deploy everywhere platform for the developers. I think this is a risky move by Firefox to invest in the Marketplace, since they have been loosing users to Google Chrome lately. May be the company should concentrate in the browsers first and then step in into the marketplace? What do you say?
Via: IntoMobile