> Is it a platform that is so great and compelling people are going to stop making native apps for it?
I think that's the idea, yes :)
> Is it a new browser that is so amazing they everyone is going to swap to it, and it makes web apps responsive and amazing?
Browsers are already pretty cool; what's good for Firefox is what's good for the web (including webkit browsers). Since Firefox is pursuing consensus and standardization with all their new phone/browser ideas, it should be easier in the future to write cross-platform web/phone apps.
> Is it an entire 'platform' that runs inside a browser? A native app that acts like it's own 'OS' that runs on all phones?
It sort of is a broswer. It provides a bunch of APIs that make it possible to control phone functions from javascript. So you load a web app, and it can make phone calls and send texts and take pictures and whatever. In this video you can see the app launcher and the phone app written in HTML, CSS, and javascript. http://cnettv.cnet.com/hands-mozilla-firefox-os-boot-gecko/9...
Yes. https://marketplace.firefox.com/ They're not interesting in locking down the device to just one app source though.
> Is it a platform that is so great and compelling people are going to stop making native apps for it?
I think that's the idea, yes :)
> Is it a new browser that is so amazing they everyone is going to swap to it, and it makes web apps responsive and amazing?
Browsers are already pretty cool; what's good for Firefox is what's good for the web (including webkit browsers). Since Firefox is pursuing consensus and standardization with all their new phone/browser ideas, it should be easier in the future to write cross-platform web/phone apps.
> Is it an entire 'platform' that runs inside a browser? A native app that acts like it's own 'OS' that runs on all phones?
It sort of is a broswer. It provides a bunch of APIs that make it possible to control phone functions from javascript. So you load a web app, and it can make phone calls and send texts and take pictures and whatever. In this video you can see the app launcher and the phone app written in HTML, CSS, and javascript. http://cnettv.cnet.com/hands-mozilla-firefox-os-boot-gecko/9...