Rust/Servo/Quantum culminated in tangible benefits that reflect successfully played out projects from which Firefox reaped major rewards. And FireFox OS, perhaps more than any other, is something I wish we had right now, because if they never gave up on it and we had a 10+ year old alternative mobile OS waiting for its moment, it could have been well positioned in a moment like this one where Android is increasingly betraying the trust of its developers. I think the Yahoo/Mozilla partnership, quickly forgotten, could have been meaningful if there was good vision.
Yahoo had a major collection of properties that still had relevance, and core services like email, search and maps that I remember Matt Yglesias (of all people) insisting would have been the keys to the success of a FirefoxOS. Yahoo had the infrastructure, but no vision and a bad brand, and Mozilla was the inverse. An interesting what-if that unfortunately amounted to nothing.
Yahoo had a major collection of properties that still had relevance, and core services like email, search and maps that I remember Matt Yglesias (of all people) insisting would have been the keys to the success of a FirefoxOS. Yahoo had the infrastructure, but no vision and a bad brand, and Mozilla was the inverse. An interesting what-if that unfortunately amounted to nothing.