'There is no new ecosystem,' he told journalists at the MWC press launch. Also, Mozilla would be off to a running start in terms of getting apps for such a tablet, for the same reasons outlined by its senior vice president of products Jay Sullivan in February. I can definitely see us going to tablets in future, right now a lot of opportunities exist in phones, at least for this year.'īased on the first clutch of Firefox OS smartphones shown at MWC, a Firefox OS tablet is certainly viable.

'It became clear very quickly that the volume right now is behind smartphones. Initially we were thinking about tablets as it's a mobile device but it's more similar to the desktop - a bigger screen, you can consume rich content better,' he said then. 'When the project started, tablets were the initial goal that we thought about, a year and a half ago. Indeed, a Firefox tablet would go back to the roots of Firefox OS itself, as explained by Mozilla's vice president of mobile engineering Andreas Gal in an interview with ZDNet in February this year at MWC. Mozilla has been active in the tablets market with its Firefox browser for some time: Firefox for Android tablets launched in January 2012, for example, and its UI designer Ian Barlow was blogging a few months before that about the design lessons learned. Such a device would not come as a surprise.