If you ship a crappier native experience, you'll get canned before you can do the right thing. Because of a desire to ship fast, FFOS didn't have any vision other than "native, but worse". Again, don't want to armchair quarterback, but this vision didn't sell.
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Replying to @wycats @andreasgal and
You are totally wrong on the reason for the lack of success of FFOS. Rather, look at what makes or break a mobile platform: official support from top apps.
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Replying to @fabricedesre @wycats and
Yup. And we had to ship/get users to get apps. Hence many shortcuts we didn’t like
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Replying to @wycats @andreasgal and
Less glib: you didn't just need to ship, you needed to ship a new vision for a platform. The shortcuts muddied the waters until nobody could see the vision, and, all else equal, nobody wants more platforms to support.
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Replying to @wycats @fabricedesre and
People don’t build apps for a vision. They build it for users. We tried to get them. Were canceled before we could.
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Replying to @andreasgal @fabricedesre and
People absolutely do build apps for a vision. I'm shocked to hear you say this.
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Replying to @wycats @fabricedesre and
We tried vision. Didn’t work. People build for reach not to feel good. Hard to blame them
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Replying to @andreasgal @fabricedesre and
Vision is not about "feel good". It's about convincing people that you have a reason to exist that justifies the pain of another thing, and convincing them you'll stick around long enough to see it through.
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Replying to @wycats @andreasgal and
Mozilla is unable to stick around for anything but a desktop browser unfortunately.
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That's not intrinsic, but yes, I find Mozilla's situation very sad.
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