Comments on: FireFoxy http://www.morpheusmedia.com/mlog/emerging-technologies/firefoxy/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:12:47 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: pickle http://www.morpheusmedia.com/mlog/emerging-technologies/firefoxy/comment-page-1/#comment-2590 pickle Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:02:44 +0000 http://www.morpheusmedia.com/mlog/?p=167#comment-2590 Two things - Flash support and stability. Stability is important for adoption and Firefox should be able to deliver. But more importantly, not until you can watch flash-based videos on the iPhone, besides YouTube, it is hard to say which mobile browser will be the most viable. Viability of a browser to accomodate Flash is crucial. I say this because until you can watch YouPorn on your iPhone, Apple is playing a losing game. Back in the 80's, Betamax, although a superior technology for rendering video, lost out to VHS because people could rent porn on VHS but not on Betamax. Sony, the owner of Betamax, wouldn't allow it until it was too late. People don't like to admit it, but porn is a driving force on the internet like it was back in the days of the emerging video rental market. Check the top 100 internet searched for keyphrases - you know it and I know it. Although the iPhone has changed mobile forever, too much control over their slick brick is going to hurt them badly. If they don't hurry. Together, Firefox and YouPorn will rule the world, not Safari and YouTube. And once again, history will repeat itself with Apple being the market innovator but not the market dominator. Two things – Flash support and stability. Stability is important for adoption and Firefox should be able to deliver. But more importantly, not until you can watch flash-based videos on the iPhone, besides YouTube, it is hard to say which mobile browser will be the most viable.

Viability of a browser to accomodate Flash is crucial. I say this because until you can watch YouPorn on your iPhone, Apple is playing a losing game. Back in the 80’s, Betamax, although a superior technology for rendering video, lost out to VHS because people could rent porn on VHS but not on Betamax. Sony, the owner of Betamax, wouldn’t allow it until it was too late.

People don’t like to admit it, but porn is a driving force on the internet like it was back in the days of the emerging video rental market. Check the top 100 internet searched for keyphrases – you know it and I know it. Although the iPhone has changed mobile forever, too much control over their slick brick is going to hurt them badly. If they don’t hurry.

Together, Firefox and YouPorn will rule the world, not Safari and YouTube. And once again, history will repeat itself with Apple being the market innovator but not the market dominator.

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