Because the full featured Firefox browser is coming to Android.
http://blog.vlad1.com/2010/02/02/android-progress-more-pixels-edition/
Fuck off.
suck it, you dumb slashdot filter
They hope to avoid liability.
1: You're missing the point. The point is that developers will move to browser independent webapps rather than writing an iPhone+blackberry app+htc touch app, etc.
2: Web browsers are not appropriate for everything, but they're becoming increasingly faster, and increasingly more appropriate for more intense tasks.
3: There's already lots of subscription websites - Mozilla need not do anything to support this - people can do this on their own.
4: The browser already has access to everything you listed: camera, accelerometers, GPS, and multitouch. And yes, the hardware is abstracted away by the platform and made available through a standard API.
Isn't this more of a visualization than an instrument?
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