Just when you thought we’d reached stability in the mobile space (with iPhone, Android, and Blackberry being the main platforms) — Mozilla’s Jay Sullivan claims that browser-based content will emerge as the real winner in the mobile space.  Huh?  Mobile web browsers?   That’s so 2002!

This really comes at an interesting time, with iPhone being the king of mobile apps, and Android (as well as other platforms) building up momentum with their own app stores.

Mozilla, on the other hand, is betting on it’s mobile browsers Fennec, to be the mobile web 3.0 solution for content providers.  Mozilla is betting that ‘the web will win’ and that apps will die out over the long-term, falling from the dominant position they hold now in the mobile space.  Apparently Fennec will use good-ol’ standard JavaScript and HTML as the front-end for mobile applications.

This is definitely a space to watch — although it’s hard see Fennec becoming a real player (or even a significant platform) with apps dominating the market currently.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/firefox-mobile-vs-app-stores/

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Jay Harley is the CEO and web architect of Heaven Interactive. As a technologist, Jay specializes in creating business productivity software and offering clients high-level media consulting services. Before founding Heaven Interactive, Jay led a double life as a web consultant and MFA New Media instructor at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. At AAU, he enthusiastically developed several courses in web application design and scripting, and enjoyed daily interaction with design students, offering guidance, support, and camaraderie as a media professional. Jay is now squarely focused on providing Web 3.0 solutions to businesses in the form of collaboration and presentation software, by utilizing the power of the "Web as a Platform."