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Mozilla to Cease Development of Firefox OS

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday December 10 2015, @09:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the and-little-was-lost dept.

joekiser writes:

Mozilla announced earlier today that they will be cancelling the Firefox OS effort, and will cease creation of new smartphones.

From Techcrunch:

To differentiate from Android and iOS, Mozilla and its carrier partners focused on a web-first platform, with no native and only web apps. Sales, however, were always poor and the devices themselves failed to ignite a lot of consumer interest, and a number of OEMs cornered the market with a flood of cheap handsets. In a business that depends on economies of scale, it was a failure.

This comes a week after gauging interest in spinning off Thunderbird. Is Mozilla's new focus on becoming privacy-oritented enough to save the struggling company? What experience did SoylentNews users have with FirefoxOS? I'll admit, I was optimistic and even owned a ZTE Open for a few months back in 2013, but it was a step down from my feature phone at the time (Nokia Asha 311) and ZTE never delivered on the promise to provide updates to the OS.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:42AM (#274366)

    I've never heard of Firefox OS, and I'm a self-important know-it-all techie nerd, so if I haven't heard of a thing, it's irrelevant. Tell me more about Linux, because I guzzle penguin piss.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:47AM (#274367)

    Because not working on Firefox OS gives them more resources to fuck up the Firefox browser?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @01:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @01:47AM (#274752)

    I think you're confused, Slashdot is that way -->