We will end development on Firefox OS for smartphones after the version 2.6 release For that reason we’re opening up a conversation here on Discourse and will have open office hours over the coming days.
There are some exciting opportunities for you to shape this next phase through your participation – we’ve started to outline some of these below and will send more details in the days ahead.Įven after reading more below, you may have questions to ask and thoughts to share. And let’s remember why we’re doing this: we’re entering this exciting, fragmented space to ensure users have choice through interoperable, open solutions, and for us to act as their advocates for data privacy and security. The main reason they are being made is to ensure we are focusing our energies and resources on bringing the power of the web to IoT. Obviously, these decisions are substantial. We expect the Sony Z3C foxfooding devices to be useful in this, but we expect it to take until the end of March to figure out the specific design of this program.
The Connected Devices team has been testing out a new product innovation process with staff, 3 products have passed the first “gate” and many more are in the pipeline.Firefox OS apps will continue to be accepted into 2017 (we have yet to finalize a date for when we won’t continue accepting these apps). As of March 29, 2016, Marketplace will no longer accept submissions for Android, Desktop and Tablet, we will remove all apps that don’t support Firefox OS.We will end development on Firefox OS for smartphones after the version 2.6 release.We’ll elaborate more below, but let us start by being very clear and direct about 4 decisions that have been made: In particular, there are a few decisions that we want to share along with what will happen next. We’re sharing this on behalf of Ari and the Connected Devices leadership group.
The purpose of this email is to share a follow up to what was announced by Ari Jaaksi, Mozilla’s SVP of Connected Devices, in early December – an intent to pivot from “Firefox OS” to “Connected Devices” and to a focus on exploring new product innovations in the IoT space. You may also want to visit these wiki pages for more information: Mozilla staff will be monitoring this channel closely over the next 48 hours to answer your questions and concerns as quickly as possible. Obviously, these decisions are substantial and we knlow there will be many questions.
Below is the full email that was sent out. Today we shared a number of decisions around Firefox OS along with changes to Marketplace, foxfooding, and the Product Innovation Process.