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Re:Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on ... by lipowitz on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:01AM (#44247729)
The next billion users for each billion after the first were not enterprise workers who wanted to connect to some email server so windows and BlackBerry missed the volume market entirely. Users wanted a phone that lasted 3 years, could browse and could bank. A small number of power developers that dont despise the platform are simply needed to keep the user base at all and a browser OS that wasn't Android had that by default.

Mozilla ignored the autonomy of the parties that should be in an ecosystem and tried to make them wait for Mozilla's choices and implementations on things. I bet they had more than enough people on every one of their waiting lists for being involved but they discouraged actual involvement.

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Re:Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on ... by fidotron on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:07AM (#44247795)
https://www.wired.com/2011/08/blackberry-london-riots/

BBM was much more mass market than your attempt at revisionist history would suggest.

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Re:Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on ... by lipowitz on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:09AM (#44247818)
The next billion didn't live in London. (These companies didn't want to butcher their high price per user market for volume and BB was not much of the market a year or two later. Firefox OS existed from around when Android had 80% share with most of that being at least one version behind.. I was rather obsessed with the limits of the 3rd quartile mobile browser in 2014..)
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