Why don't you count UC?
It's already established that you find $500MM reasonable. Here's a question: why invest in the next big thing while still so far behind on the last thing? Why so little investment in a solid mobile story?
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Frankly, we bet the farm on mobile with Firefox OS and it failed. That was orders of magnitude more expensive than what we're doing with mixed reality. We're refocused on mobile browsers now and they will be getting much better over the next year or two.
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Why did FFOS failure mean an almost complete and total deinvestment in mobile at the time?
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Firefox OS sucked up almost all the resources Mozilla had, pulling them not just from mobile, but from desktop and web platform. No one at Mozilla was exempted from being called on to stop what they were doing to work on something for OS. It was our "mobile investment".
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This conversation started with a lot of criticism of FFOS. Yes, FFOS was a disaster. This kind of pendulum swing (BET THE FARM! NEVERMIND DEINVEST IN MOBILE!) is what's baffling
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After Firefox OS, we were not only behind on mobile we were years behind on desktop too, where we owe it to hundreds of millions of users to not suck. We spent the last couple years getting desktop back into shape. Now we're increasing investment in mobile platform and browsers.
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These are all good explanations from a 20,000 foot view in the abstract. Doesn't explain the Connected Devices boondoggle, internal resistance to servo, sudden large investment in MR, multi-million dollar all hands in expensive resort towns, executive infatuation with Davos, etc
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If you'd said: "we're working as hard as we can, but our leadership makes too many mistakes and I think that should change" this conversation would have been very short.
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I probably should have been clearer about this earlier: I don't think platform engineers or UX designers broadly are a waste of money or doing a bad job. Quite the opposite. But unless I'm doing the math wrong, those costs don't come close to adding up.
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