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Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS

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Re: Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS

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Post by josteink »

GTP wrote: post #4

Sad news for me

While yes, it's kinda sad, I also think this was obvious the second the first Firefox OS phones were shipped. The idea was good, but the execution and result was completely underwhelming.

And after the dud launch, whatever momentum had been there, simply dried out. Nothing major has happened since launch for Firefox OS, while Android and iOS have had several major releases.

That it took Mozilla this many years after the fact to admit this failure, is (as other comments) a sign of bad leadership.

The effort spent here could have been much better spent elsewhere. And these days Mozilla needs to spend its resources efficiently more than ever.

IMO the whole "connected devices" initiative which Mozilla also mentions here (I had completely forgotten about it) will suffer the same fate. It's not connected to anything they currently do, or anything they have a natural ability to reach out to. Whatever drives this initiative, it seems completely disconnected from engineering.

Unless they kill it now, we'll see a similar announcement in a few years. And that too will be resources that could have been spent more wisely.

Re: Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS

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Post by yoavm »

So we had Jolla, Ubuntu, Mozilla and even Microsoft trying to create a new major player in the mobile OSs market - all pretty much failed to do so.

Is it practically impossible? Are we stuck with Android and iOS forever? This tiny selection of options worries me.

Re: Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS

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Post by nir »

yoavm wrote: post #6

So we had Jolla, Ubuntu, Mozilla and even Microsoft trying to create a new major player in the mobile OSs market - all pretty much failed to do so. Is it practically impossible? Are we stuck with Android and iOS forever? This tiny selection of options worries me.

As it stands you either give Apple complete control of you software/hardware or you give Google full access to every detail of your life.

There should be a sticker "Don't blame me, I supported Firefox OS"

Re: Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS

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Post by pjc50 »

yoavm wrote: post #6

So we had Jolla, Ubuntu, Mozilla and even Microsoft trying to create a new major player in the mobile OSs market - all pretty much failed to do so. Is it practically impossible? Are we stuck with Android and iOS forever? This tiny selection of options worries me.

Only one of those really makes any money. What's the economic model that would bring a competing OS into existence?
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