值得谷歌和蘋果警惕的手機操作系統(tǒng)

這是什么？

????火狐操作系統(tǒng)是一款價格低廉的輕量級手機操作系統(tǒng)，由曾經(jīng)開發(fā)頗受歡迎的火狐網(wǎng)絡(luò)瀏覽器的Mozilla Foundation開發(fā)。火狐為什么要趟手機操作系統(tǒng)這趟渾水？畢竟，蘋果（Apple）和谷歌（Google）兩家已經(jīng)控制了手機操作系統(tǒng)市場90％以上的份額。微軟（Microsoft）和黑莓（Blackberry）則在試圖鞏固業(yè)界老三的地位。但它們雖然花了不少錢，收效卻很有限，市場份額只有小得可憐的個位數(shù)。火狐瞄準的并不是高端市場，至少目前不是。這款于今年早些時候推出的操作系統(tǒng)最初瞄準的是新興市場中的廉價手機。

????火狐操作系統(tǒng)是基于Linux，而且采用的是開放源碼。在火狐操作系統(tǒng)上，類網(wǎng)絡(luò)HTML應(yīng)用可利用JavaScript以及所謂的網(wǎng)絡(luò)API，直接控制設(shè)備的硬件。Mozilla意在建立或鞏固網(wǎng)絡(luò)技術(shù)，而不是其它巨頭采用的封閉式做法。迄今為止，初始的火狐手機都是低價產(chǎn)品。但臺灣科技巨頭富士康（Foxconn）——全球最大的電子設(shè)備制造商——將支持火狐操作系統(tǒng)。【富士康為蘋果和諾基亞（Nokia）組裝設(shè)備。】我們不妨近距離觀察一下這款創(chuàng)新性的操作系統(tǒng)：

What is this?

????Firefox OS is a lightweight, inexpensive operating system for phones being developed by the Mozilla Foundation, the group that makes the popular Firefox web browser. Why is Firefox going in this direction? After all, Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) and Google (GOOG, Fortune 500)combined control over 90% of the mobile OS market. Attempts by Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) and Blackberry (BBRY) to cement third place -- with market share in the low single digits -- have proved expensive and not-so-successful. Firefox OS isn't going after the top of the market -- at least not yet. Introduced earlier this year, the operating system is initially aimed at low-cost handsets in developing markets.

????Firefox OS is based on Linux and is open source. It is designed to allow web-like HTML apps to directly control a device's hardware using JavaScript and so-called web API's. Mozilla's interest is in establishing or cementing web technologies, as opposed to some of the closed approaches of other big players. So far, initial Firefox phones have been low-frills affairs. But Taiwanese giant Foxconn -- the world's largest manufacturer of electronic devices -- is going to put some weight behind Firefox OS. (Foxconn, of course, puts together devices for Apple and Nokia (NOK).) Here's a closer look at the revolutionary operating system.