> You can't ship software without considering engineering constraints. You > can't ship usable software without some degree of UX/UI care and user > research. You can't compete in a market with multi-billion-budgeted > competitors without doing market research and staying focused on > building something that works in/with that market. You can't compete > against billion-dollar marketing campaigns by not doing any marketing > yourself. > > All of those concerns helped guide this decision in addition to the ones > you listed, and if you do not take them into account it is going to be > hard to understand Mozilla's decision. > > ~ Gijs
I'm not a browser programmer, or a web developer or anything. I'm just a user of firefox. But I'm sitting here watching Mozilla go down the rabbit hole trying to fight Microsoft and Google on their terms. New features! Flashy advertisement! Condescending 'we know what you want in a browser' blog posts! What I want in a browser is fast, small, reliable, and trustworthy. If you give up those qualities in an attempt to beat people a hundred times your size... Well, I suspect you're going to bleed offended users faster than you're going to pick up new ones. To me, this isn't just about Pocket, though having yet another new icon appear on my toolbar out of the blue pissed me off. Pocket is just a symptom of the 'what-the-hell-are-you-doing' that mozilla has been sitting in for a couple years now. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
