Firefox and the value of the next 2 billion smartphone users
Jonathan Nightingale, VP of Firefox, talks about its new Firefox OS phones and why they’re focusing on emerging markets and the next 2 billion smartphone users/clients of low end devices; the deal with Spreadtrum and how he sees Nokia and the rest of the competition, the price pressure downwards, the platform wars and who will win, finally. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.
Jonathan Nightingale
VP of Firefox
Johnathan Nightingale is Mozilla’s Vice President of Firefox and helps an incredible community of people build the best Web browser on the planet. He often speaks on Web security and Firefox development and has a passion for the open web that grows tiresome at dinner parties. Educated in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, he began his career at IBM hacking on WebSphere and then moved into their user-centered design group before joining Mozilla in 2007 to make the web a better, safer place. He lives just outside of Toronto, Canada in a home full of books and baby toys.
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Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest annual gathering of mobile and related industry C-Level executives. If anything is happening in mobile, it can be found at MWC. TTC conducted 38 interviews during Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona - SPAIN, at the WIPJam pavilion at Fira Montjuic, between 24th – 27th of February, 2014