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They fired Eich and turned from a company of smart engineers and users of their product to randos who work on weird projects using their big paycheck from Googl
by prepend 5y ago
They fired Eich and turned from a company of smart engineers and users of their product to randos who work on weird projects using their big paycheck from Google.
Their products suck because they don’t care about them. They don’t genuinely want to compete with or anger Google for fear of losing funding.
They’d be better off cutting down to a lean $5/year spend and just making a browser.
I think.
- tdeck 5y agoA lot of their lack of focus predated Brendan Eich's 11 day CEO tenure. By 2014 Firefox had already lost a ton of mindshare and Mozilla was working on their unsuccessful Firefox Phone.
- drannex 5y agoEichs short lived reign was a symptom, not a cause. The decision to put him there was certainly a decision made by an executive board that is out of touch.
- Lammy 5y ago(HANGS UP JAVASCRIPT PHONE) https://www.bonequest.com/5546 https://www.bonequest.com/5546
- jordanthoms 5y agoIn retrospect it seems firefox phone was actually a good idea, it’s been reborn as KaiOS and doing great. Pretty embarrassing for Mozilla to fail and cancel the project and then have another company take it and succeed…