모질라 - 파이어폭스OS 2.6을 마지막으로 단종...

모질라(Mozilla)를 통해 아쉬운 소식이 전해졌습니다.

바로 모질라의 모바일OS인 파이어폭스OS(FireFox OS)가 2.6 버전을 마지막으로 단종된다는 소식입니다.

앞으로 파이어폭스OS는 3월 29일 이후 앱 등록을 할 수 없으며, 5월 이후로는 지원부서도 사라져 OS에 대한 사후지원이 종료될 것으로 보입니다.

인도등 신흥국가를 타켓으로 LG, 폭스콘등 다양한 업체와 협력하에 점유율을 높이고자 노력했지만, 시장 점유율 1%도 되지않은 상태로 더이상 가망이 없는 것으로 판단한 듯 하며, 모질라가 밝힌 공식 내용은 다음과 같습니다.

Dear Mozillians,

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 December36 -- an intent to pivot from “Firefox OS” to “Connected Devices” and to a focus on exploring new product innovations in the IoT space. We’re sharing this on behalf of Ari and the Connected Devices leadership group.

In particular, there are a few decisions that we want to share along with what will happen next. We’ll elaborate more below, but let us start by being very clear and direct about 4 decisions that have been made:

We will end development on Firefox OS for smartphones after the version 2.6 release.

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. 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).

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. Having multiple different product innovations in development will be the approach moving forward, and we’re hoping to open up the formal process to non-staff participation in the first half of the year.

The foxfooding program will continue and will focus on these new product innovations (rather than improving the smartphone experience). 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.

Obviously, these decisions are substantial. 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. 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.

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.

Even after reading more below, you may have questions to ask and thoughts to share. For that reason we’re opening up a conversation here on Discourse and will have open office hours over the coming days28. Please reach out.

모바일OS에서 철수한 모질라는 향후 사물인터넷(IoT)과 커넥티드 디바이스 플랫폼에 집중할 것으로 예상됩니다.

출처 : Mozilla-Community.org