They Could Produce Some Good Software (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-17 22:00 (#253) You know, for a nice change of pace. Firefox has turned into everything they SAID they hated about the Netscape suite - bloated and creaky and unstable. (Fittingly, the Seamonkey suite sings by comparison).They abandoned Thunderbird (more or less).They wasted resources on yet another mobile phone platform, their own. Meanwhile their Android Firefox sucks eggs and can't render properly.They've done nothing but chase Google's money for years and years. I don't care who their CEO is. Their choice of a bigot was just the latest bad decision from an org with no soul. Re: They Could Produce Some Good Software (Score: 1) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-06-17 22:20 (#254) The new Firefox OS is actually pretty neat, development wise. Instead of having to learn custom languages and tool kits, they use standards-based web technologies. Anyone familiar with current web development will immediately go: "Hey, I know this!" when looking at how to make an app for their new phone. Or, at least that's how I felt when I thumbed through it. Re: They Could Produce Some Good Software (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-20 11:51 (#272) Wasn't that what WebOS was supposed to be? Wasn't that what iOS 1.0 was supposed to be?Will no one learn this lesson without repeating the same mistakes first? Or is it Different This Time?
Re: They Could Produce Some Good Software (Score: 1) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-06-17 22:20 (#254) The new Firefox OS is actually pretty neat, development wise. Instead of having to learn custom languages and tool kits, they use standards-based web technologies. Anyone familiar with current web development will immediately go: "Hey, I know this!" when looking at how to make an app for their new phone. Or, at least that's how I felt when I thumbed through it. Re: They Could Produce Some Good Software (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-20 11:51 (#272) Wasn't that what WebOS was supposed to be? Wasn't that what iOS 1.0 was supposed to be?Will no one learn this lesson without repeating the same mistakes first? Or is it Different This Time?
Re: They Could Produce Some Good Software (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-20 11:51 (#272) Wasn't that what WebOS was supposed to be? Wasn't that what iOS 1.0 was supposed to be?Will no one learn this lesson without repeating the same mistakes first? Or is it Different This Time?