Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

On his blog, FirefoxOS developer Christian Heilmann reflects on why he is excited about the phone operating system in light of the announcement of the first FirefoxOS smartphones. One of five things he highlights: "FirefoxOS does not assume a fast, stable and always available connection. When traveling I start hating my Android phone which I love to bits otherwise. Having dozens of megabyte updates over roaming is out of the question and neither is using flaky and slow wireless connections. Firefox OS has no native apps – all of them, including the system apps are written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Thus they are much smaller and can have atomic updates instead of having to be replaced as a unit every single time."

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