Comments on: Alibaba – Chop and change

By: windsorr

windsorr — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:17:35 +0000

I am sure that Firefox is already talking to everyone in the Chinese ecosystems but how many of them will bite remains to be seen.

Take your point on TVs and phones in Japan but lets see how many of them sell.

Would YOU buy a Firefox phone for $500 that has no apps and no Digital Life services. I would not.

By: windsorr

windsorr — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:15:27 +0000

If its open source, you cant control the code. the only option is to take the code as it is one day and make it your own. the problem then comes with what one is then oblidged to share back with the community when one ships commercial product. This is why I think that something open source is a more difficult proposition for the Chinese as I think they wish to have full control of the code.

By: Sam Mayfield

Sam Mayfield — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:10:10 +0000

Agreed with the writings above. firefox phones already have official Alibaba apps on their marketplace, i saw at the link at http://firefoxadvices.com/alibaba-aliexpress-app-firefox-phones/ you can see the business relationship in place with these two companies. many online articels in chinese, sorry for my poor English I am from China. but i hear FIREFOX is already talking to Ten Cent.

By: Theo Flemming

Theo Flemming — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:05:32 +0000

Firefox from Mozilla I’ve been watching now, and with their $500 high end phones in Japan (http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/23/7440079/fx0-firefox-os-smartphone-specs-release-date-photos) and Panasonic TVs available ($1,000+) this quarter, both of which I saw at Mobile World Congress, they’ve moved into a new segment which means they are realistically the option here for Alibaba.

The code is Open Source too, so Alibaba will have all the control on the code that they need.