My OperaDo you use a smartphone or a tablet?
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:31:14 PM
I hate you. I hate you all.
Actually I would not mind of you spending lots of money in useless gadgets if the whole IT industry wasn't trying to force me out of using a PC to join your mindless "touch" crowd.
Eh, where is God of the Bible to send an archangel with a flaming sword when you need one?
Mozilla decided they don't care of the +20 million people who are using their mail client Thunderbird because they want to focus on their projects on the "mobile" market. Like the "operating system" that should run over phones that should be something like a Linux core plus Gecko (Mozilla's rendering engine) plus HTML5 applications, of course downloaded from a Mozilla sort of "appstore". Mozilla mission is to drive openess and innovation and they feel like there isn't anything they can "innovate" on PCs. So me and other million people have become irrelevant. Nice move Mozilla.
It isn't exactly new. But at least in the past the excuse was to focus on Firefox, the browser. Not about developing another "who cares" software for mobile devices. You plan to repeat the same game you played with Internet Explorer against iOS and Android? Good luck with it. I could care less, since I don't have any.
Actually I would not mind of you spending lots of money in useless gadgets if the whole IT industry wasn't trying to force me out of using a PC to join your mindless "touch" crowd.
Eh, where is God of the Bible to send an archangel with a flaming sword when you need one?
Mozilla decided they don't care of the +20 million people who are using their mail client Thunderbird because they want to focus on their projects on the "mobile" market. Like the "operating system" that should run over phones that should be something like a Linux core plus Gecko (Mozilla's rendering engine) plus HTML5 applications, of course downloaded from a Mozilla sort of "appstore". Mozilla mission is to drive openess and innovation and they feel like there isn't anything they can "innovate" on PCs. So me and other million people have become irrelevant. Nice move Mozilla.
It isn't exactly new. But at least in the past the excuse was to focus on Firefox, the browser. Not about developing another "who cares" software for mobile devices. You plan to repeat the same game you played with Internet Explorer against iOS and Android? Good luck with it. I could care less, since I don't have any.
Unregistered user # Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:17:23 PM
Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi # Friday, July 13, 2012 5:20:51 AM
Unregistered user # Friday, July 13, 2012 11:57:13 AM
Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi # Friday, July 13, 2012 12:38:20 PM
ΩJr.OmegaJunior # Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:02:57 AM
And yes, it is necessary that the companies that do move onto the mobile platform put in place a content strategy that covers their other channels too. Not just desk-top, but also t.v., radio, and print. Neglecting your customers on any of those platforms just spells a customer drop.
I don't see why Mozilla can't continue work on Thunderbird. Their volunteers devote their time freely and out of personal drive. I predict plenty of them will fork Thunderbird, as it has a huge user base, is open source, and fix it / improve upon it, where necessary.
Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi # Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:19:46 AM
Speaking of the IT business.
The point here is that "customers" don't know anything until somebody don't tell them. It is not like "customers" thought they could use a tablet instead of a PC, they were told by the media, advertisement.
I don't mind if monkeys use tools designed for monkeys.
Like I said, the problem is that the PC market has been saturated so prices dropped and revenue margins for everybody selling in the business dropped.
In theory you can take hardware whose development and assembly costs have been already payed by past sales and put together a very low cost PC, lets say around 200 euros.
But that would benefit only users, not retailers.
Same goes with software, half Windows machines in the world are still running XP that was released more than 10 years ago. It clearly shows that customers did not actually need "new" Windows versions, yet MS is releasing Windows 8 which forces people to adapt to a new GUI and developers to move to Metro and related tools.
We are speaking of the fact that corporations need to create new markets where they can still sell at high prices and good margins, then smartphones and tablets in the hardware field, touch screen GUIs and tools in the software field.
Customers find out they "need" new gadgets after their "need" is created by marketing.
As side effect, we all know that "mobile" gadgets are for casual Internet users and teenagers, they are not for doing any actual work with them. Then there is this "inversion" so the more the user is dumb (in the sense that he cannot do anything with computers), the more the marketing makes him/her believe to be "cool".