3 ms·
Is this a loss leader? Or what's their revenue model? I'm aware of this: >WSJD: What is your revenue model? And what is your target? Hsu: Mozilla is a nonprof
by josu 12y ago
Is this a loss leader? Or what's their revenue model? I'm aware of this:
>WSJD: What is your revenue model? And what is your target?
Hsu: Mozilla is a nonprofit organization. We do need revenue for sure. For now our revenue is mainly from the desktop. We work with a lot of web content search engines and all the service providers; we have a revenue sharing model with them.
We are targeting to see if we can reach one percent market share (of smartphones), and that’ll be a good beginning. We don’t know when but that’s our goal.
But it just doesn't answer my question. I can't see how a $33 phone can be profitable, unless they expect to make more money after the sale.
- atopal 12y agoWell, Mozilla doesn't actually build or sell any phones. Mozilla just provides the OS. Since Intex is no charity, you should assume that they are still making a profit at $33.
- wmf 12y agoWhen you use Firefox to do a Google search, Mozilla makes money. If FxOS can take 1% of the smartphone market that may give ~$1M of incremental revenue from search alone.