I agree. Focusing 90% of our resources on Gaia apps that will never be as good as Android/iOS counterparts, won't grow Firefox OS. If we instead channel the majority of our resources into our platform (System and Gecko) and the developer experience that surrounds it, we should expect great community lead content to follow.
I don't believe our work on core apps has been a wasted effort. It's been a very effective way to push Gecko to a point where it can deliver the level of experience people expect on mobile today. There is still a space in the market for an OS that puts the web (and its developers) first. *W I L S O N P A G E* Front-end Developer Firefox OS (Gaia) London Office Twitter: @wilsonpage IRC: wilsonpage On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Marcus Cavanaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Reza Akhavan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I like the idea of Mozilla _helping_ the community build out the >> ecosystem. I feel like we should do less "inside" of Gaia and focus more on >> the platform/core-experience. I also feel like we should push as many >> things into userland as we can. >> > > Yes. We can't maintain an expansive set of full-featured core apps on our > own. But a stable, lightweight "Firefox OS Core" experience could be much > more valuable. > > Expanding the open webapp ecosystem is absolutely important... but > transforming our existing webapps into exemplary cross-platform experiences > would be far more work than just building them for our own OS. It might > work if we had an order of magnitude more resources, but I don't think we > can afford to do this today. Given our current resources, I think our best > strategy would be to: > > 1. Release most of our apps into the community as-is (open-source, > community-driven). > 2. Focus intensively on Gecko, Gaia::System, and just a few core apps. > Make "Firefox OS Core" really shine. > 3. Engage with the web community to fill gaps in the webapp world. > More options include grants, contracts, etc. > > If Open Web Apps are inevitably the future, #3 will get easier with time. > If the success of Open Web Apps depends on Firefox OS, things get hairy. > It's probably somewhere in-between. > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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