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Pocket isn't just about the development costs. Any long-time firefox user with a shred of sense could have predicted (and did predict) the massive fallout that
by scrollaway 10y ago
Pocket isn't just about the development costs.
Any long-time firefox user with a shred of sense could have predicted (and did predict) the massive fallout that came from Pocket. Yet, Mozilla didn't.
Everybody assumed Mozilla took money from Pocket. Yet, Mozilla didn't.
The Pocket situation is hilarious. People see a 3rd party service being shoved down the throats of the user, they immediately assume Firefox is "selling out". Mozilla got all the negatives of a bad deal, and none of the money. It takes a certain skill to mess up this bad.
- pseudalopex 10y agoMozilla did take money from Pocket, just not up front. "Although the company emphasizes that Pocket and Telefonica didn’t pay for placement in the Firefox browser, Mozilla Corp. chief legal and business officer Denelle Dixon-Thayer told WIRED that Mozilla has revenue sharing arrangements with both companies." http://www.wired.com/2015/12/mozilla-is-flailing-when-the-web-needs-it-the-most/ http://www.wired.com/2015/12/mozilla-is-flailing-when-the-we...
- yuhong 10y agoYea, I remember this fiasco when it happened on Reddit.