On 23 February 2016 at 15:43, Fabrice Desré <[email protected]> wrote:
> While the goals you state are true, I think it was a bit naive on your > side to believe that we would not care about "commercial" success. For > us that would not mean getting lots of money, but building a large user > base to get leverage. I understand that the user base of Mozilla's products is what gives us the leverage to have impact towards our mission. I just wanted to call out that saying that Mozilla failed to "win on commercial smartphones" or implying that with Firefox OS and the Firefox Marketplace our goal was simply to "catch up" with Android or iOS and their app stores doesn't properly reflect what we set out to achieve, so every time I read that it grated with me. That part didn't work, and has been used over an > over by people that wanted to see fxos be stopped. Which is a strategic > mistake I think - but it seems we don't want to be resilient anymore. > It's sad to actually see others reaping the fruits of what we learned by > pushing chrome faster and to better places than gecko. > If Chrome and Opera are improved and interoperable because of the work that we did on Firefox OS then I'd say that is a net win for our mission. But yes it definitely hurts to see Google implement a W3C spec that we wrote before we do. As we move Firefox OS forward I would like to see us re-focus on that standards base, and create more user value by leveraging those standards in Firefox too. Also, Andreas promised to get a tatoo once we would have shipped to 1M > users, and I'm still sad this didn't happen ;) > I'm pretty sure we hit that number... I demand to see Andreas' tattoo ;)
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