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Web == MobileStormy Peters
@stormingFOSDEM 2015
The long term future of mobile is the web, not
closed app stores.
What the world needs from you:
Free & Open “Apps”
My Hats
Free software background
Art work by Máirín Duffy
Mozilla
People need to be in control
Firefox OS Phone
What about you?
Software developers
Web developers
Have developed an app?
People & MobileWhat do they need?
People need to do things
Photo by northpolemama
Your phone determines what you do
Photo by Tsahi Levent-Levi
Fight for users based on content
What if your browser determined what you could see?
Internet
App stores control developers
Photo by Dan Ox
Take a chunk of your money
Photo by Shaun Wong
Reserve the right to entry
Make them pay to be found
Lottery ticket mentality
Can the web do better?
Web is full of apps: “free beer” apps
Next Billion People ...
The response is often: “What’s the Internet?”
“Then what do you use you phone for?” we then ask.
The most common response: “Oh, I just use Facebook and WhatsApp!
Mark Surman: https://commonspace.wordpress.com
On the Web, everyone can create & publish
Can the world access web?
Design with constraints
Limitations create elegance
SMS apps
Mobile should be open & accessible
We need Web apps: they are accessible &
functional
Web is on all devicesPhoto in Yahoo! Search: http://yhoo.it/1yiQfvm
Webapi’s are pretty awesome
We need more people creating more
open web apps so that people can be free from
app stores.
We need to continue to work on open mobile
ecosystem.
We need to have more mobile conversations at
FOSDEM.
The long term future of mobile is the web, not
closed app stores.
Stormy Peters@storming
Mobile == Web
