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Mozilla Document Shows Firefox OS Tablet, TV Stick, Router, Keyboard Computer
An anonymous reader writes: Earlier this month, Mozilla announced that Firefox OS smartphones would no longer be sold via carriers. Because the company refused to talk about what's next for Firefox OS, aside from saying it will experiment with "connected devices," many were left simply to speculate as to what could be in the pipeline. Today, we have a leaked document, which Mozilla confirmed is legitimate. My favorite of the concepts is a Raspberry Pi-based keyboard.
More shit no one wants...
I've always wanted a lightweight browser with fast JS and page rendering, good memory management, and a well audited code base. Maybe Mozilla can work on something like this?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Firefox Phone, the only phone less popular than Windows Phone.
So unpopular, even Firefox abandoned it! Mozilla's problem is that they went from innovation to copying everything in sight. Chrome looks a certain way - gotta copy it. Everyone else is coming out with their own OS - Mozilla needs it's own as well. Others are inventing languages - we gotta do that too.
Seriously, routers? Not gonna happen - too much competition, and Firefox would have to farm out the design and manufacturing anyway. Keyboard Raspberry Pi? Niche product at best, with no margins. Firestick? Why? Just another solution to an already solved problem.
The only reason they're doing all this is to justify all those non-tech salaries. The people inside pushing this won't abandon it because it's against their personal financial interests, even though when they're sober they know it's just a money loser and their own goal is to be a leach for as long as possible.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.