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And six years ago, mobile was a quick-growing massive and ubiquitous field. How did that pan out for Mozilla? A failed operating system and the beginning of a h

And six years ago, mobile was a quick-growing massive and ubiquitous field. How did that pan out for Mozilla? A failed operating system and the beginning of a huge decline in both marketshare and performance for Firefox.

greenhatman 7y ago
If we stopped doing things because they might fail we'd be nowhere.
- carmate383 7y ago
  And if Mozilla keeps making the same mistakes it will go nowhere.
  - hutzlibu 7y ago
    They develeoped and pushed WebStandards nonstop. It did not lead to widespread Firefox mobiles, but it was not wasted work.
    - pjmlp 7y ago
      With Chrome of all things now, lets see how it pans out.
danso 7y ago
Last I checked, Mozilla was still a functioning, funded company pushing out regular updates to Firefox, among other projects. Mobile still is a massive and ubiquitous field, and Firefox Mobile is one of Mozilla's ongoing projects. You believe that a failed project means a company should stop innovating and entering emerging fields?
- kkarakk 7y ago
  maybe if they'd actually ENTER it'd matter. partner up with a chinese manufacturer and make mozilla branded IoT stuff. providing a platform without associating a manufacturer is doomed to failure imo. Especially in the saturated hyper competitive markets mozilla chooses to enter.
  - Vinnl 7y ago
    I do expect them to be attempting to partner, so hopefully we'll see some announcements in the future.