In December, Ari Jaaksi, senior vice president of Connected Devices Mozilla announced two policy changes that made it one. On the one hand, the abandonment of Firefox OS for smartphones – where the fight was too hard and the lack of applications too difficult to fix. On the other hand the opening of a new field of exploration, one of the Internet of Things, built on the ashes of the effort to smartphones.
An end in May
In a long communication published yesterday, Mozilla has just made several important announcements. The first Firefox OS for smartphones is no longer supported and developed after the launch of version 2.6. This means that the project “Firefox OS for smartphones will be allocated more manpower after May” says long post from Mozilla. Logical result of this decision, many regret that the marketplace will also restrict its business and accept new Firefox OS applications until 2017. A more specific date should be provided later. After that, nothing?
The focus on a new goal
In addition, Mozilla announced that its team dedicated to connected objects has completed the first phase of testing for three new products under Firefox OS. To ensure the development of other products to accumulate more experience possible returns, Ari Jaaksi teams indicate that the program “foxfooding” , which lets you group lifts of experience, remarks and ideas of developers and users, is maintained and will probably slightly adjusted its shape to match these new products and this new direction.
If smartphones are abandoned, TVs connected, they do not. Good news for manufacturers like Panasonic, who bet on this technology. They are even part of the three new test devices at the heart of the strategy of Mozilla.
The foundation also announced the establishment of a new fund system should allow to experiment and initiate new developments on fast rhythms.
Many questions naturally arise. That the future of the community that was created around Firefox OS for smartphones. The more technical and strategic projects that are being validated.
But behind all these questions is a vital question arises: Mozilla does have the power necessary strikes to carve a sufficient share of the market for connected objects? This is much less mature than that of smartphones, but the Foundation will find the same opponents: Apple, Google and Samsung, to name a few.
As with the arrival of Firefox OS in the smartphone market, the stakes are high: to provide an open, standard platform for this area that looks for the moment much the Wild West …
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