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0 pointsjanice19992y ago0 comments

Before that it was a mobile OS that failed to gain traction.

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FirefoxOS may have died, but its fork KaiOS did quite well, shipping on tens of millions of cheap phones in developing countries.

I think these countries are moving to Android/iOS as they get wealthier, but the legacy of FirefoxOS was quite successful. It's just that Mozilla never got much out of it.

pas2y ago

at least boot2gecko made 1000x more sense than a painfully vague "focus on AI"

1attice2y ago

I love FF and T-bird hard, but I have this mental image of a huddle full of brilliant, 20-year-plus systems engineers sitting in a room staring at a whiteboard with 'AI?' in the middle of it.

"Ok, everybody popcorn up some ideas. Don't be shy."

[one of them opens a laptop and begins fiddling with a flame graph]

reducesuffering2y ago

So Bighead and Gavin Belson?

https://youtu.be/CFsRif1wVGs?si=5939fsuM2AigbB_9

lupusreal2y ago

At least that was plausibly related to browser development, vis-à-vis ChromeOS. With "AI services" they're totally dropping the pretext of caring about Firefox.

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