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"We were struggling with Chrome and the massive investment by Google to take market share." So we decided to start a competitor to Android to win in an even mo
by KingOfCoders 1y ago
"We were struggling with Chrome and the massive investment by Google to take market share."
So we decided to start a competitor to Android to win in an even more difficult market against both Apple AND Google because we could not win the easier market.
- jeroenhd 1y agoFirefoxOS was eventually forked into KaiOS, which was the second most common mobile OS in India for a while, selling millions of phones. It was never going to beat iOS, but it could've had Google's (and at the time Microsoft's lunch) for cheaper phones. On the browser front, Google only had a third of the market at that point. Firefox was losing users, but the situation wasn't nearly as dire as it is right now.
- panick21_ 1y agoAnd what would having millions of cheap phones meant for Mozilla? Not much if you ask me. Basically just Indian and Chinese ultra cheap phones that pay very little back and do little development. Chrome might have only had a third of the market, but anybody around at the time could see that this was only a matter of time. Chrome was just better in so many ways. Mozilla needed to buckle down and focus all their engineer on the browser.