Hacker News Reader

And six years ago, mobile was a quick-growing massive and ubiquitous field. How did that pan out for Mozilla? A failed operating system and the beginning of a huge decline in both marketshare and performance for Firefox.

View on HN

Last I checked, Mozilla was still a functioning, funded company pushing out regular updates to Firefox, among other projects. Mobile still is a massive and ubiquitous field, and Firefox Mobile is one of Mozilla's ongoing projects. You believe that a failed project means a company should stop innovating and entering emerging fields?

maybe if they'd actually ENTER it'd matter. partner up with a chinese manufacturer and make mozilla branded IoT stuff. providing a platform without associating a manufacturer is doomed to failure imo. Especially in the saturated hyper competitive markets mozilla chooses to enter.

I do expect them to be attempting to partner, so hopefully we'll see some announcements in the future.

If we stopped doing things because they might fail we'd be nowhere.

And if Mozilla keeps making the same mistakes it will go nowhere.

They develeoped and pushed WebStandards nonstop.

It did not lead to widespread Firefox mobiles, but it was not wasted work.

With Chrome of all things now, lets see how it pans out.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com