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Well, Android Apps run on Dalvik/ART, which is not HTML5/js but I agree, it's not a real difference, except in FirefoxOS marketing strategy, targetting ultra low end devices with heavy (heavier than ART) apps will result in an absurdly unusable system.


Well what I was trying to say is, Firefox OS apps are just web pages. Saying that an Android user is locked into the Play store unlike a Firefox OS user seems silly, because you don't need a single Android app installed to mimic the functionality of Firefox OS. All you need is the browser.


No, because Firefox OS apps are web pages with benefits :)

In particular, they can be bundled to be used offline, and they can get access to a whole host of device APIs, which I don't believe are accessible to any web apps on Chrome for Android: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/App_permissio...




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