Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India
by codezero on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @07:14PM
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If they make a model based on altruism work, I am all for it, but I am working on the assumption that it won't work, or at least, I don't know of many systems in which something is for sale, but the rest of the system relies on altruism.
Wikipedia is altruism on a large scale, but they aren't selling the consumer anything.
Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India
by soapdog on Thursday June 12, 2014 @12:01AM
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nor is mozilla selling anything... mozilla is a global community dedicated to the betterment of the web. We don't have shareholders, we're only accountable to you, the normal web user that we'd like to help and protect ;-)
Cue: Google for "Mozilla is my dinossaur"
What's your metric for success? Perhaps the Firefox OS teams metric is enable people to get a cheap smart-phone, period.
Down thread you say:
>targeting the lowest end of the market isn't a great idea unless you are trying to make money off the sale of the device alone and not ongoing services like apps //
And that works if you consider only ideas that make a profit to be valid. Perhaps they think that others will add to their project altruistically.
Mozilla give away their main product for free (albeit enabled in that as they're supported through advertising via Google).
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/