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Seriously? IoT is a quickly growing, potentially massive and ubiquitous field. Given the shit state of security and technical implementation of its initial era,
by danso 8y ago
Seriously? IoT is a quickly growing, potentially massive and ubiquitous field. Given the shit state of security and technical implementation of its initial era, in very glad that a well-resourced non-profit is helping to create an open standard.
- carmate383 8y agoAnd 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.
- greenhatman 8y agoIf we stopped doing things because they might fail we'd be nowhere.
- carmate383 8y agoAnd if Mozilla keeps making the same mistakes it will go nowhere.
- danso 8y agoLast 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?
- kkarakk 8y agomaybe 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.
- Vinnl 8y agoI do expect them to be attempting to partner, so hopefully we'll see some announcements in the future.
- IshKebab 8y agoHonestly this looks like a reasonable platform but who is really going to set up an OpenWRT or raspberry pi gateway? Almost nobody. The real thing that kills this is that there's no native support from Google Home or Alexa. They're easily the best way to control IoT devices.
- scoutt 8y agoI'd do. I appreciate having my data on my local server(s). But since you pointed out a necessity, and for every necessity there is a customer, one can start a SaaS for (Mozilla) gateways, charging for traffic/storage. There are others IoT providers, but I think there is none for Mozilla's (?).