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I don’t know. They maybe hope they’ll be first on the next big thing which they think is VR. But who knows if VR is going to be big, who knows if it needs a bro
by konschubert 8y ago
I don’t know. They maybe hope they’ll be first on the next big thing which they think is VR. But who knows if VR is going to be big, who knows if it needs a browser and what keeps chrome from eating the cake anyways after Firefox has scoped out the territory.
I think this is a very risky bet unless they make net money on this which they can funnel into more promising projects.
- Vinnl 8y agoYou and I have very different definitions of risky :) Worst case, the effort of a relatively small team has been wasted, and Gecko and Servo will have received a few improvements as a result of their work. Best case, VR makes it big and Firefox is its go-to browser. Then consider the case where they're not in the VR space early. Best case, they've saved a relatively small team's effort. Worst case, VR makes it big and Firefox is as marginally relevant as it is now on mobile.
- konschubert 8y agoI don’t believe that being early as a browser gives you that much of an advantage in such an unexplored space. Differences between browsers in this space will be big for a while and people will switch back and forth. Maybe the cost of this project for Mozilla is so small that it doesn’t matter, but I think it isn’t Edit: also I said that the bet itself is risky, not that it’s putting Mozilla’s existence in jeopardy