After hearing about Mozilla wanting to enter the App Store, I contacted their PR department to see if I would get them to drop some crispy updates/news/anything about what they are cooking up. Unfortunately it seems like the motto is “no comment”. After getting a first answer saying that they are going to look into it for me, they sent me another e-mail :

We are not able to participate in this opportunity at this time

They apologized for the inconvenience and that’s all I was able to obtain. They did say “at this time” though which I could interpret as another confirmation that something is indeed coming… But what’s confusing to me is that I wouldn’t be surprised if this was Apple, but Mozilla ? Come on, why are you playing the secrecy card ?

If you look at Mozilla’s company description you get things like:

we use a highly transparent, extremely collaborative process

or

And we’re an open source software project

This whole app deal doesn’t sound very transparent to me, what do you think ?

Also, do any of you happen to be living in Mountain View, Auckland, Beijing, Copenhagen, Paris, Tokyo or Toronto and have some spare time to go sneak around their offices?