"The smartphones going into the world's next two billion pairs of hands may not belong to either Google or Apple, but to Mozilla [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/a-firefox-smartphone-for-the-poor/]. The Mozilla Foundation, which oversees open source software projects like the Firefox Web browser, expects to release a mobile operating system for smartphones early next year. Its target market is Latin America, then the rest of the developing world, where smartphones from Apple and Google are still too expensive for most people." Let's hope so, because at the rate things are currently going, we'll end up with like 90% Android, 9% iOS, and 1% other stuff. Who wants that?

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