On 02/12/2015 05:45, Marcus Cavanaugh wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Naoki Hirata <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I think we really need to go back to the roots of Mozilla and help
cater to the features that people are requesting :
http://foxfooding.github.io/dashboard/
I agree with the sentiment that we should listen to our foxfooders,
rather than build a product based on unproven visions. I don't think
that this list, as it stands, represents what we should work on, nor
what we should care about.
While some of these items would be universally welcomed, and papercuts
would be nice to fix, the overwhelming majority of users don't care
about CardDAV, WebDAV, VPN support, full-disk encryption, or PGP email.
The majority, no, but the people that are right now considering a switch
to FxOS certainly do. We should not care about the majority of users. We
should care about the majority of user that can potentially switch to
FxOS /right now/. Why? Because we /need /to hit that 5-10% market share
that will make us appear on charts and stats, so that people would start
making app for FxOS. This won't happen, ever, if we keep on targeting
the mass, staying always behind apple and google.
Btw, a lot of people have a NAS that provides a CardDAV server. The vast
majority of people I know who've bought a FxOS phone without being
involved in the project told me they were missing CardDAV support. It's
no surprise to me that it is the most voted feature right now.
Actually, it's a bit depressing to hear so many people saying that the
most voted feature are not relevant, without never ever providing either
an alternate measurement of which features are needed, or even a biased
and personal list of those features. The people who voted are the people
who care. They are our potential "customers" (not the vast majority of
users that either have never heard of FxOS, or have heard it is a sub
quality OS).
They are also the people that can evangelize for Firefox OS. It's a pity
that we are currently telling them that we don't care about what they
voted for...
Augustin Trancart
Phoxygen
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