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> It absorbed resources and focus, which resulted in the browser stalling development, which resulted in shrinking marketshare, which resulted in less money fro
by fabrice_d 3y ago
> It absorbed resources and focus, which resulted in the browser stalling development, which resulted in shrinking marketshare, which resulted in less money from the search deals, which resulted in the ongoing job losses.
That's history revision. The browser development didn't stall because of FirefoxOS, it was slow for other reasons (look at the leadership team changes when the Quantum started).
Please remember that FxOS started in 2011. At the time WindowsPhone was quite new (first release in 2010), Samsung was pushing Tizen and Android was not nearly as dominant. Context matter. Mozilla already knew that Firefox would not be the default browser on Android (Google waited for Chrome to be ready to replace the crappy default one that was subpar compared to Firefox) so owning a platform was a logical step. It would still be better these days.