The difference is, users must have choice. Sure we can support the big guys, but we should also make it so little guys can build ffx support in an absolutely seamless manner and directly compete.
This is an area where we can give the market a fighting chance to do one thing, do it extremely well, and win the hearts of users away from large silos. Why not contact sync by ffxos apps? (Give the user a choice, feature the most popular) Lloyd Mark Finkle <[email protected]> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- > On Sep 3, 2013, at 5:11 AM, Christophe Brocas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello > > > > Sync has always been Firefox oriented and so it put the focus on syncing > > booksmarks/tabs/passwords informations. > > > > But with the move to Mobile with FirefoxOS, I think users will first want > > to > > sync their contacts and calendar between their mobile/PC/tablet. Because it > > is > > what first matter on a phone. > > > We should probably provide our own contact sync service eventually, but in > the spirit of "not building another silo", what about syncing to other > contact service providers (Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc)? > Maybe we should support third-party contact sync before we build our own. > When we launch support for contact sync, exactly 0 zero users will have > pre-existing contacts in the Firefox OS contact syncing service, which makes > the value prop less compelling. However, I suspect at least some users will > have pre-existing contacts at these other providers, so supporting contact > sync with them is a compelling value prop. I can't help feeling a bit sad about this plan though. We use FirefoxOS to give people a great entry platform to the mobile internet, then we introduce them to Google or Facebook and proceed to get them locked into those vendors. I can see the rationale of the plan: If you want Sync, then you must have more than just your phone. If you have more than just a phone, you probably already have your data locked into a vendor. Unless these people, like many others, mistakenly see Sync is a way to backup their contacts and other data. _______________________________________________ Sync-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev
