On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Karl Dubost <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. Do we want to compete with Starbucks (and reduce its influence as the > 2nd wave coffee maker)? > 2. Or do we want **to be part** of the 3rd wave coffee maker [1], aka > quality, artisanal and small scale? > > In the case of 2. It's not one mozilla which is needed, but thousands of > them producing different types of browsers and services. > I like the idea of Mozilla _helping_ the community build out the ecosystem. I feel like we should do less "inside" of Gaia and focus more on the platform/core-experience. I also feel like we should push as many things into userland as we can. What if we pulled our email client (or music, calendar, clock, calculator, camera, gallery) out of Gaia and tried to make them great Open Web App experiences for any device. I could imagine we'd better understand developers' struggles, trying to build once, target multiple devices/OSes and maintain a great experience (ex: the upcoming Flipkarts). This could also help us identify weaknesses in the Open Web Apps standard and make recomendations with case-in-point apps under out belt. Not to mention it'll be way easier for developers to contribute to these apps since they could use almost any device. Working on FxOS core isn't easy (dev environment, code downloads, ramp up time, bugzilla, the list goes on). Adding new Open Web Apps to the FxOS Marketplace should be considered a contribution to FxOS. I'm sure the web dev community would impress us with what they'd create. Expanding the ecosystem of Open Web Apps automatically extends the usefulness of FxOS and I don't think we're doing enough in this area. This and the Marketplace can be key differentiators that we're not taking full advantage of.
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