Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50

Re:Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50 by flukus on Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:20PM (#13556426)

I'm kind of sad about this because I found development for the OS to be better than for any other mobile OS, even though I've got no love for javascript. It also ran a lot smoother than android even on the potato quality phone it come on.

I hope in future they can leverage their rust knowledge and give us a platform that's open, easy to develop and fast.

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Re:Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50 by bitmapbrother on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:04PM (#13556723)

>It also ran a lot smoother than android

I find that hard to believe considering the reviews I've read on it.

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Re:Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50 by flukus on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:37PM (#13556899)

I know, I read the same reviews so I was pleasantly surprised. I even went back to the store a few days later and bought dad his first smart phone for Christmas. It really is quite criminal how slow android is on machines that would have been unimaginably high powered desktops not long ago.

Firefox/gecko has always been great on "underpowered" hardware though. A few years ago I bought an unusably slow android tablet. This thing couldn't play an MP3 without long pauses every 5 seconds. Chrome was absolutely useless but with Firefox it became a half decent web browsing machine.

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Re:Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50 by computerex on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:04PM (#13557319)

To say you are comparing apples to oranges would be an understatement. Your comparison went from kind of making sense to making no sense at all.

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Re:Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50 by flukus on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:18PM (#13557383)

Which comparison? I was comparing firefox OS to android and later saying how good firefox performance is in general.

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Re:Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50 by fabrice_d on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:05PM (#13557016)

That is true. On the same HW, Firefox OS was better than Android.

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