Google’s Andy Rubin on Firefox OS: “In General, I Feel Friendly”
The head of Android praised the advent of Firefox OS, saying Mozilla’s effort can bring the Web to parts of the market that Android can’t reach.
Plus, it is open.
“In general, I feel friendly toward them. … open is good,” Andy Rubin said in a roundtable with reporters at Mobile World Congress on Tuesday. “Competition is good. We built Android because there was no open operating system.”
Rubin said he is glad to find himself in competition with more open operating systems than closed ones.
Getting more people with access to the Web benefits Google more broadly, he said.
“There are places where Android can’t go,” he said, referring to memory and other hardware requirements. Firefox can help reach those. “For certain markets, it makes sense.”
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