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    1. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 28 Mar 2018
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      Perhaps the hardest part to understand and appreciate is the extent to which the people who should be fighting for these users aren't. The board of @mozilla has a lot to answer for, given their mission: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/979097423510294529 …

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      It's really, *really* important for web developers & others who care about the web to understand how poorly the web performs in emerging markets -- and why that re-enforces the centralizing position of top-10 native apps.
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    2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 28 Mar 2018
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      I expect Mark Zuckerberg to be an absentee landlord of a growing empire...that's capitalism. But where's @cbeard or @MitchellBaker? The future is mobile. Where-the-AF-are-you, @mozilla? We need you in this fight.

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    3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 28 Mar 2018
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      There will be all the "you've drunk the Google kook-aid" flack on this thread. Nerp. I work places that have serious, legitimate plans to make the web something other than a desktop-only, legacy-centric OS. So I work on @googlechrome.

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    4. Sam Grace Sneddon  🏳️‍🌈 (they/them)‏ @gsnedders 28 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @slightlylate @googlechrome

      When the mobile web is largely WebKit/Blink-centric and when few mobile users install another browser, it's a hard market to break into. When you're a comparatively small organization with a comparatively small marketing budget, how do you go about it?

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    5. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 28 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @gsnedders @googlechrome

      Make a thing people want. UC did this. It's neither impossible nor unlikely; but it does involve understanding those users *better*.

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    6. Sam Grace Sneddon  🏳️‍🌈 (they/them)‏ @gsnedders 28 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @slightlylate @googlechrome

      But that is not in and of itself sufficient; when browser sniffing gives users worse experiences, when websites break because of non-standard WebKit/Blink features being unsupported… features almost never make up for this.

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    7. Malte Ubl‏Verified account @cramforce 28 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @gsnedders @slightlylate @googlechrome

      When fennec launched it was by far the best browser for Android. Yet even then you could feel as a user that the organization behind it didn't fully supports it's existence. Still hoping for it to turn around.

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      Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 28 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @cramforce @gsnedders and

      The first version of native Fennec was a labor of love. Small room, a few engineers, an energetic feeling that we were going to do the browser “right”. @dougturner remembers :)

      7:09 PM - 28 Mar 2018 from Civic Center, San Francisco
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        1. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 28 Mar 2018
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          Replying to @pcwalton @cramforce and

          BTW, it was the experience of scaling Gecko down to mobile for native Fennec that directly influenced the Servo graphics stack, which became WebRender. I wanted to use the lessons learned to rebuild the stack right :)

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        2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 28 Mar 2018
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          Replying to @dougturner @pcwalton and

          Well, if anyone still listens to you, can you relay that we need them? It's an emergency. The web is failing for the next billion users and platforms don't get a seat at the next table if they're irrelevant now (see Fire, WatchOS, TvOS, Android Wear, etc.).

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        1. Malte Ubl‏Verified account @cramforce 28 Mar 2018
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          It was amazing. The current product is still good enough to deserve a chance. I do wish all those Operating System marketing and engineering dollars would have flown into it.

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