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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by slang800 on Thursday January 26, 2017 @12:21AM (#13488971)
> They were looking at those Spain, India, China markets, yes, and nailing those markets didn't really depend upon the opinions of comparatively extraordinarily rich Bay Area denizens or hackers.

It does when those Bay Area hackers are the ones who decide whether or not they will port their app to your phone.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by wolfgke on Thursday January 26, 2017 @07:02AM (#13490637)
> It does when those Bay Area hackers are the ones who decide whether or not they will port their app to your phone.

The mistake is rather that for closed protocols you are dependent on the Bay Area hacker to port the apps instead of "everyone can implement the open protocol".

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