Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
1–10 of 131 posts
Re: Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
#2So they're laying off 50 people, yet hiring for roughly comparable jobs.[1]
Re: Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
#3I'm kind of sad about this because I found development for the OS to be better than for any other mobile OS, even though I've got no love for javascript. It also ran a lot smoother than android even on the potato quality phone it come on.
I hope in future they can leverage their rust knowledge and give us a platform that's open, easy to develop and fast.
Re: Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
#4Mercifully done after Christmas, but I guess the writing had been on the wall for some time.
Now let's see if Mozilla can break through the bubble and focus on what web developers really need, rather than blindly following "valleyist" fashions.
Re: Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
#5Should have been kept as a research project, and only launched for consumer devices when service workers and PWA's became mainstream, and also the new rendering techniques from servo are integrated into gecko. If we're lucky, web apps will be able to cover 50-80% of native app use-cases in the next 2-3 years. When Firefox OS was launched, it was clear they were simply not up to scratch to make a system like that viable. Especially for low performance devices.
Re: Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
#6Seems weird (out of character) to be reading this from a news site rather than from the Mozilla blog.
Re: Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
#7So they're laying off 50 people, yet hiring for roughly comparable jobs.[1] [1] https://careers.mozilla.org/listings/
Is it possible that they are collecting resumes online but never hiring or interviewing the candidates? The resumes would be used as evidence that they tried to hire Americans but didn't consider any of the applicants to be qualified. This evidence was used to file visa applications.
Re: Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
#8Should have been kept as a research project, and only launched for consumer devices when service workers and PWA's became mainstream, and also the new rendering techniques from servo are integrated into gecko. If we're lucky, web apps will be able to cover 50-80% of native app use-cases in the next 2-3 years. When Firefox OS was launched, it was clear they were simply not up to scratch to make a system like that viab…
> web apps will be able to cover 50-80% of native app use-cases in the next 2-3 years
Feels like this has been 2-3 years out for almost as long as "native apps" have existed.
Reminds me of the first scene in "Snatch" -
Turkish: What's happening with them sausages, Charlie?
Sausage Charlie: Five minutes, Turkish.
Turkish: It was two minutes five minutes ago.
Re: Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
#9I use to have a Firefox OS phone (the Flame), but since I broke it last july, I switched to Android and 7 month in I still miss my FFOS phone :/.
Android UX is just terrible, and the interface looks so slow (my new phone is a $400 phone from 2016, compared to a 180$ phone from 2014 …)
Re: Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
#10The original announcement that Netscape would release Mozilla as open source included some FAQs, including one question along the lines of "are you going to release your own operating system?" The answer was that there was no good reason to build an operating system on a browser. If only they had remembered that!