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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.

Original Submission

1. "joekiser" - https://soylentnews.org/~joekiser/
2. "Techcrunch" - http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/08/mozilla-will-stop-developing-and-selling-firefox-os-smartphones/?ncid=rss
3. "Thunderbird" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/12/01/2026238&from=rss
4. "privacy-oritented" - http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/08/mozilla-launches-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios-9/
5. "ZTE Open" - http://www.gsmarena.com/zte_open-5320.php
6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=11032

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