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Farewell Firefox OS smartphones. Mozilla today announced an end to its smartphone experiment, and said that it would stop developing and selling Firefox OS smartphones. It will continue to experiment on how it might work on other connected devices and Internet of Things networks. The announcement was made earlier today at Mozilla’s developer event in Orlando, “Mozlando“, and several people were tweeting the basics of the news. Now Mozilla has provided us with a full statement from Ari Jaaksi, Mozilla’s SVP of Connected Devices. “We are proud of the benefits Firefox OS added to the Web platform and will continue to experiment with the user experience across connected devices. We will build everything we do as a genuine open source project, focused on user experience first and build tools to enable the ecosystem to grow. Firefox OS proved the flexibility of the Web, scaling from low-end smartphones all the way up to HD TVs. However, we weren’t able to offer the best user experience possible and so we will stop offering Firefox OS smartphones through carrier channels. We’ll share more on our work and new experiments across connected devices soon.” Firefox OS was first unveiled in 2013, with the aim of targeting the developing world and late adopters with low-cost handsets. To differentiate from Android and iOS, Mozilla and its carrier partners focused on a web-first platform, with no native and only web apps. Sales, however, were always poor and the devices themselves failed to ignite a lot of consumer interest, and a number of OEMs cornered the market with a flood of cheap handsets. In a business that depends on economies of scale, it was a failure. Mozilla has been on a streamlining track lately. Last week it announced that it would be looking for alternative homes for its Thunderbird email and chat client. The aim is for the company to focus more on its strongest and core products and reputation. Today the company also unveiled a new ad blocker, playing on its existing approach to privacy and stance on user tracking and cookies. 
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rip to a thing I didn't know about and will never miss
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Dec 8, 2015 20:58
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yard salad posted:rip to a thing I didn't know about and will never miss way to be uninformed
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Dec 8, 2015 21:03
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is mozilla getting ready to shut down entirely or something? they talked about spinning off thunderbird like a week ago
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Dec 8, 2015 21:08
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akadajet posted:Today the company also unveiled a new ad blocker, playing on its existing approach to privacy and stance on user tracking and cookies. Mitchell Baker posted:But over the years many people have come to expect and want their software to do things on their behalf, to take note of what one has done before and do something useful with it.
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Dec 8, 2015 21:09
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Phoenixan posted:is mozilla getting ready to shut down entirely or something? they are streamlining in an effort to be completely focused on turning firefox into a poor copy of chrome as a firefox and thunderbird user, mozilla and their slow slide into obsolescence
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Dec 8, 2015 22:15
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SO DEMANDING posted:they are streamlining in an effort to be completely focused on turning firefox into a poor copy of chrome considering you can literally install chrome extensions in the Opera browser, from the chrome store, it looks like all browsers are becoming chrome
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Dec 8, 2015 22:18
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the what
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Dec 8, 2015 22:27
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apparently people use them in south america? i tried one once it was pretty slow
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Dec 8, 2015 22:59
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SO DEMANDING posted:they are streamlining in an effort to be completely focused on turning firefox into a poor copy of chrome rip
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Dec 8, 2015 23:04
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Mozilla, you had a cool browser from 2004 - 2008.
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Dec 8, 2015 23:33
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bradzilla posted:
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Dec 8, 2015 23:41
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bradzilla posted:
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Dec 8, 2015 23:43
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bradzilla posted:
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Dec 8, 2015 23:52
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remember when mozilla picked a massive homophobe (and developer of poo poo-tier lang js) as its ceo? and then he got ousted cause he was a massive homophobe and everyone cried cause sjws robbed a good man of his job? lmbo
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Dec 8, 2015 23:55
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Condiv posted:remember when mozilla picked a massive homophobe (and developer of poo poo-tier lang js) as its ceo? I don't, link?
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Dec 9, 2015 01:22
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2336520/mozilla-defends-ceo-over-homophobic-claims
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Dec 9, 2015 01:45
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before firefox phone was released there were same priced low end android phones which people actually bought so ff never even had a market
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Dec 9, 2015 01:51
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sales pitch "its like android but fewer features and apps and the software is slower"
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Dec 9, 2015 01:53
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N.Z.'s Champion posted:and the software is slower Than android? Impressive.
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Dec 9, 2015 01:55
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Phoenixan posted:i used firefox up until the point i bought a mac and noticed that safari and mail.app weren't that bad
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Dec 9, 2015 02:35
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N.Z.'s Champion posted:before firefox phone was released there were same priced low end android phones which people actually bought so ff never even had a market apparently you don't value freedom
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Dec 9, 2015 02:45
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dam.. firefox phone ftw. now the only epic phone os that remains is sailfish OS and jolla(?)
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Dec 9, 2015 07:50
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im sensing a void in the power sphere. opera must make a phone OS
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Dec 9, 2015 07:50
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jolla at me, boy
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Dec 9, 2015 08:15
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lmao i missed the review from ars last year http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/10/testing-a-35-firefox-os-phone-how-bad-could-it-be/ The body is large for the 3.5-inch display, which means about 40 percent of my Cloud FX front is bezel. The 480×320 display reminds us of a first-generation LCD, as the only angle that results in a decent picture is a perfect 90 degree angle. Horizontal viewing angles are OK, but move a few degrees off-center vertically, and the screen starts to invert. At about 20 degrees off perpendicular, the screen inverts completely, looking like negative film.  It's often hard to tell what color something really is, since the colors change so easily, depending on the screen angle. It wasn't until after taking screenshots for this article and viewing them on a better LCD that we had a sense of what the software looked like. The poor vertical viewing angles get even weirder in landscape mode, where the screen has a strange "shimmery" appearance, and you can never get the left side of the screen to look the same as the right side. Trying to play a game in landscape mode actually gave us a bit of a headache, since any small movement would change the colors. The keyboard doesn't support multitouch, so you if press "Q" and "P" at the same time it splits the difference between the touch points and enters "Y." We'd love to run some benchmarks but, sadly, a combination of incompatibility and crashtastic software means nothing works. You would think Firefox OS would have a killer browser that could easily run browser-based benchmarks, but they all crash. Lacking any kind of real benchmark, our initial plan was to sit down with a stopwatch and record website load times, but my Cloud FX performance is so wildly inconsistent that we couldn't even get an average load time for the same site. Load times would frequently swing 1000 percent on the same website, regardless of the state of the browser cache. Ars would load in a few seconds one time and the next would take over a minute. The whole OS is like this; sometimes folders open to a blank screen, show a loading spinner, and never populate. My Cloud FX has a 2MP rear camera that feels like it's pushing the definition of what can be legally called a "camera." The output from my Cloud FX is more like a vague recollection of the colors and, if you're lucky, a shape or two. Every image we captured looked like a washed-out, muddy watercolor painting, and that's if we could see the image at all. My Cloud FX needs a lot of light to work. Moderately lit scenes were frequently turned into pitch-black nothingness.   My Cloud FX whiffs on a lot of the basics. It's slow—too slow for Firefox OS. Scrolling on a webpage doesn't really work. It can't keep time without a data connection. The alarm isn't reliable. Background e-mail checks never run. Typing is an exercise in frustration, which limits what you're willing to do with the device. There isn't much left here to salvage. DaNzA fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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Dec 9, 2015 13:30
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As a Millennial I posted:the what
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Dec 9, 2015 13:40
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quote:The other really weird thing missing is any kind of battery backup for the time. If the phone loses power, the time and date gets reset, leaving it looking like an old VCR blinking "12:00." 
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Dec 9, 2015 13:40
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why would a phone need to keep time with the battery pulled? as soon as it gets a cell signal or internet connection it pulls the time from that
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Dec 9, 2015 14:10
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apparently not firefox os
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Dec 9, 2015 14:20
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lol
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Dec 9, 2015 14:21
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Smythe posted:im sensing a void in the power sphere. opera must make a phone OS i hope ur ready for redhat enterprise phone
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Dec 9, 2015 14:26
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i hope ur ready for redhat enterprise phone nice av
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Dec 9, 2015 15:21
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does anybody remember phoneblocks
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Dec 9, 2015 17:23
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aren't his parents now suing the city and school district for something ridiculous like $15 million?
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Dec 9, 2015 17:38
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from their new home in qatar, yes
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Dec 9, 2015 17:39
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The_Franz posted:aren't his parents now suing the city and school district for something ridiculous like $15 million? just as any true american would 
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Dec 9, 2015 18:16
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Ahmed should work on the Zybourne Clock next.
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vodkat posted:just as any true american would agreed
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