No Firefox For iOS, Says Mozilla's Product Head 318
hypnosec writes "Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's VP of Product, has revealed that the non-for-profit organization is not going to build an iOS version of its Firefox web browser as long as Apple doesn't mend its unfriendly ways towards third party browsers. Speaking at SXSW in a mobile browser wars panel Sullivan said that Mozilla is neither building nor planning to build a Firefox version for Apple's iOS. Mozilla pulled Firefox Home from the App Store back in September 2012 following Apple's not so accommodating attitude."
Cydia please. (Score:2, Interesting)
Dear Mozilla,
Please don't worry about what Apple wants, release Firefox for iOS in Cydia.
Re:Open Source please (Score:3, Interesting)
Not the only competition, though, If that's a factor on your choice of phone, wait a bit and buy comething with Tizen, Ubuntu, Firefox OS etc. Because, from an user's - and society's - point of view, there's good and bad competition. And competition that litigates aggressively to ban competitors, like Apple, or to extort competitors, like Microsoft, is surely bad competition.
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Interesting)
My browser blocks ads and scripts, customizes pages with Greasemonkey scripts, and removes tracking elements on pages. The built-in Safari doesn't do anything like that.
Re:Dear EU (Score:4, Interesting)
The GPL doesn't require DRM removal.
If I recall correctly the specific issue was that Apple's standard terms and conditions limits use to 5 "authorized devices", which is more restrictive than the GPL and so in violation of "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein." Of course you can have as many iTunes accounts as you like so infinite*5 ~= infinite, but technically he was entirely correct.