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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I can't give these numbers publicly, but FxOS what not a "bet the farm" project for Moz in $. It's just the scapegoat for the current leadership. The saddest thing is that now gecko is competitive again, with no useful product to propel.
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At least 300 people worked on Firefox OS and everyone else in the technical organization was "on call". Our mobile browser team was in the single digits. Don't get me wrong, I loved Firefox OS. I worked on it and desperately wanted it to succeed. It was not a cheap failure.
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How many people are working on MR and associated projects now?
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I don't actually know. Maybe 20 or so.
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Are you including servo, which says it has been entirely repurposed as an MR vehicle?
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BTW, Servo's major advancements have been or are being incorporated into Gecko. See Stylo (Quantum Style) and WebRender (Quantum Render). https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum We're working on getting all that goodness into desktop and mobile Firefoxen.
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I'm well aware of that. More effort on those advancements was deprioritized in favor of turning Servo into an AR vehicle.
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