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$33 Firefox Phone Launched In India

Posted by samzenpus on from the cheaper-by-the-dozen dept.

davidshenba writes Intex and Mozilla have launched Cloud FX, a smartphone powered by Mozilla's Firefox OS. The phone has a 1 GHz processor, 2 Megapixel camera, dual SIM, 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen. Though the phone has limited features, initial reviews say that the build quality is good for the price range. With a price tag of $33 (2000 INR), and local languages support the new Firefox phone is hitting the Indian market of nearly 1 billion mobile users.

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  1. Meanwhile, Firefox is dying off. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    While Mozilla squanders resources on this shitty mobile OS that nobody actually wants, Firefox, the only product of theirs that sees any sort of use these days, is dying off. They've done nothing but fuck up one release after another, introducing awful changes that existing Firefox users hate. Good God, the whole Chrome imitation UI they released a few releases ago was a huge slap to the face of every Firefox user out there.

    Firefox's users are getting tired of being shit upon time and time again by Mozilla. Instead of innovating and creating a better browsing experience, the Firefox devs have just chosen to copy Chrome. Meanwhile, they haven't bothered to fix the persistent memory leaks and unjustifiable CPU usage that Firefox suffers from.

    As should be expected, Firefox's users are getting sick and tired of being mistreated by Mozilla, and they're sick and tired of the shitty browsing experience that Firefox has been delivering. They're doing the only sensible thing they can do: moving to a different browser.

    Wikimedia's stats are a good measure of how Firefox is dying off. Just look at the decrease in market share:
    January 2013: 15.06%
    January 2014: 11.53%
    July 2014: 9.78%

    Firefox's usage is likely under 10% now! I think that this is a total disaster. Firefox is the only viable alternative to Chrome for many people. Yet by wasting effort on stupid shit like Firefox OS, and making one stupid decision after another with Firefox, Mozilla is absolutely killing Firefox.

    Please, Mozilla, I beg of you, stop this stupidity. Stop wasting resources on stupid software like Firefox OS that will never be able to compete. Please, Mozilla, salvage Firefox before it's too late. Please don't destroy Firefox in this pathetic quest to weakly take on Android and iOS!