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Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker has set up some of their long-term goals for Firefox recently and she’s aiming to have a proper mobile product out by 2010. Firefox has been steadily growing in the desktop share since it came out in 2004, and currently holds around 20% of the browser pie, but has yet to jump right into the mobile game yet. Opera has been immensely popular on mobile, and with the imminent launch of Android, we’re holding out breath for a mobile version of Google Chrome. Combined with the fact that Windows Mobile devices are already enjoying preloaded with the heavily-used Internet Explorer, the mobile browser market is about to get severely cramped. Waiting a year and a bit to get into the game might not work in Firefox’s favour, but the extra development time could be just what they need to shoulder in between the competition.
[The Register via Engadget Mobile]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
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