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> it took Mozilla this many years after the fact to admit this failure The first Firefox OS phones shipped in early 2013. After spending around two years tryin
by mintplant 10y ago
> it took Mozilla this many years after the fact to admit this failure
The first Firefox OS phones shipped in early 2013. After spending around two years trying to make the project work, Mozilla stopped releasing new versions in May 2015 and officially started winding down the project by the end of 2015, as mentioned in the linked newsgroup post. So it wasn't really many years at all; also, it's hard to place the blame on "bad leadership" when the current CEO didn't come on board until the middle of 2014.
- creshal 10y agoBy middle 2014, many FirefoxOS phones were already months behind on updates and neither Mozilla nor the hardware vendors were putting any effort into supporting their own flagship devices. By that point, the app store was useless, because you couldn't install any apps on most devices due to ABI breakage between versions and a fragmentation worse than Android. Neither CEO did anything to mitigate this issue. I don't know how that's not bad leadership. (Not that updates would have helped much: 1.3.0, the last and only FxOS version my phone received – which is still sold by Alcatel – was much worse than Android 2.0 in terms of UX and stability. I have no idea how anyone thought this was in any way ready to ship.)
- dismantlethesun 10y ago> Neither CEO did anything to mitigate this issue. I don't know how that's not bad leadership. Arguably that's great leadership because the CEO knew instantly to cut his or her losses, and not give into the sunk cost fallacy by pursuing this failing venture "because we're so invested in it already; we just have to try harder you see!"