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Yes, there is a valid reason - market share wars

• TheCapn 12y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor Without evidence its not really worthwhile to sling mud like that. Chances are they implemented some feature in the Play store that FF mobile doesn't support. When a FF mobile user goes to the site and its broken who would they blame most likely? Google? or Firefox? Experience tells me they'd blame Google.
  • VlijmenFileer 12y ago
    And rightly so, because it was Google that fucked up by implementing crap only supported by their proprietary crap browser.
  • arca_vorago 12y ago
    I just wanted to say, as I have said before, that Hanlon's razor is a rhetorical reference tool that should be relegated to the dustbin of conversational history. It is by definition a logical fallacy, is not conducive to intellectual conversation, and should not be used by any logic respecting person. Every time I see it referenced almost in the exact same way, eg, as an excuse to cover someones ass for them. Stop using Hanlons razor as lead in to why someone isn't malicious when you aren't in a position to know one way or the other! edit: I would appreciate a response along with the downvote.
• zanny 12y ago
  I don't see how mobile browser access to play.google.com constitutes a significant portion of the Firefox Mobile user bases core competencies. I don't think I've ever tried going to the store via browser on my Android phone just because its slower than using the native app.
  • gcp 12y ago
    You get there if you click links. It's not only this incident, Google often "accidentally" block other browsers for a day or two and then claims it was an "accident". Chrome seems to be immune to such accidents, though.