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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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1222 points phantomathkg | 5 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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sureste ◴[22 May 25 17:31 UTC] No.44064416[source]▶
Everytime people talked about Mozilla or Firefox the main complaint was Pocket. Everytime. Yet most people here are sad to see it go. What gives?
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1. plorkyeran ◴[22 May 25 18:02 UTC] No.44064828[source]▶
If you don't use Pocket then the acquisition was bad because they spent a bunch of money buying an unrelated company to add a feature you don't want. If you do use Pocket then the acquisition was bad because you don't want to be relying on a weird side project of a company because they'll do a terrible job of maintaining it and it'll inevitably get shut down.
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2. Centigonal ◴[22 May 25 18:58 UTC] No.44065460[source]▶
like grape jelly and tomato soup, two great tastes that don't belong together.
3. burnte ◴[22 May 25 19:03 UTC] No.44065525[source]▶
This is exactly correct. And everything happened exactly as written!
4. x0x0 ◴[22 May 25 22:38 UTC] No.44067920[source]▶
> they spent a bunch of money buying an unrelated company to add a feature you don't want

While fiddling (and paying their execs $$$) as the only useful thing they do -- firefox -- crashed and burned into irrelevance. Leaving the company useful only as an ersatz chrome hypothetical competitor to keep the feds / EU at bay. Great for the overpaid people running it; less good for anyone in our industry.

Exec pay: up and to the right.

Marketshare: way down and to the right.

Don't worry guys -- now they're playing VC and AI, at which they're sure to be as good as they were at running Firefox. Though I guess since you could say their only successful product was anti-trust insurance sold to Google, that's at least in the finance space, so in some way related to being a vc...

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5. simianparrot ◴[23 May 25 05:31 UTC] No.44070121[source]▶
People really don’t like your comment it seems but you’re right, even if it’s a little on the nose.

I think most people wish it wasn’t true, myself included, but how many times does Mozilla have to show us their priorities are anything but improving and maintaining Firefox itself before we accept the truth?