On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Augustin Trancart < [email protected]> wrote:
> The majority, no, but the people that are right now considering a switch > to FxOS certainly do. We should not care about the majority of users. We > should care about the majority of user that can potentially switch to FxOS > *right > now*. Why? Because we *need *to hit that 5-10% market share that will > make us appear on charts and stats, so that people would start making app > for FxOS. This won't happen, ever, if we keep on targeting the mass, > staying always behind apple and google. > > I have to agree with Augustin here. We keep chasing after this silent majority when our most vocal potential advocates are poised and ready to adopt FxOS once we tick a few more feature boxes. The apps gap is a multi-year effort to fix and ultimately largely out of our hands, but some of these feature requests are relatively minor. > Actually, it's a bit depressing to hear so many people saying that the > most voted feature are not relevant, without never ever providing either an > alternate measurement of which features are needed, or even a biased and > personal list of those features. The people who voted are the people who > care. They are our potential "customers" (not the vast majority of users > that either have never heard of FxOS, or have heard it is a sub quality OS). > They are also the people that can evangelize for Firefox OS. It's a pity > that we are currently telling them that we don't care about what they voted > for... > yep, this. I know these votes are not representative of any kind of general mobile-population sample. But that's the point - they are self selected as having a stake in FxOS. Sure, we should not set the expectation that some upvoting necessarily puts a requested feature on our roadmap, or some reddit thread or whatever. But that doesn't mean we should ignore this input entirely. If with a little effort we can remove some of these road-blocks, we should consider it, no? /Sam
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