Google Android NDK Encourages Mozilla to Consider Building Firefox for Android: But Why?

Google move paves way for Firefox on Android

The “Google move” refers to the recently released Google Android 1.5 NDK (Native Development Kit) that lets developers write Android apps that run natively instead of using the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine. This should allow the development of faster apps. But, I wonder if most Android phone users (non-power users) will even care of an Android version of Firefox becomes available. After all, Android’s own Webkit-based browser is already pretty good.

Moreover, Mozilla’s Fennec project is begining to look like the Duke’m Nuke’m Forever game that was in development for a decade before it was finally shut down.