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== Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team ==
== Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team ==
=== Desktop / Platform ===
* Study: Vision Mobile's report on "How HTML Can Compete with Native" evaluates gaps between W3C APIs and implementation in browsers. [http://www.slideshare.net/andreasc/how-can-html-compete-with-native]
* Study: Pew's Internet & American Life Project examines how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives.  [http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/digital-divides?ref=http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2013/Nov/The-State-of-Digital-Divides.aspx] It breaks down reasons for non-usage into Relevance, Usability, Price and Lack of access.
==== Tencent  ====
* China's Tencent with over 1B users is about to overtake Facebook.  [http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2013/11/05/chinas-tencent-about-to-overtake-facebook/]. Tencent's mobile messaging app WeChat has over 200m users, up three times from 2012 year-ending levels of around 85m. Tencent is also preparing $200m to place on a bid for US-based SnapChat. [http://en.kioskea.net/news/24236-tencent-s-bid-for-snapchat]
==== Microsoft  ====
*  Microsoft is offering 11 goodies to developers who can demonstrate how they got 11% better page load performance in their organization’s home web page with Internet Explorer 11. [http://www.modern.ie/en-us/11percent]
==== Apple  ====
* Apple's new OS X Mavericks is focused on helping OS X users be more efficiently. Positives include multi-monitor support and iCloud Keychain for security, and negatives include broken email capabilities. [http://mashable.com/2013/10/29/os-x-mavericks-review/] However, it is free for all Mac users, reflecting commoditized state of operating systems besides Apple's upcoming strategies with hardware differentiation. [http://www.zdnet.com/apple-makes-os-x-mavericks-free-the-implications-7000022288/]
==== Google ====
* Google's maps is evaluating integrating data about emotions, for example, places you've rated or people you hang out with, into an interactive visual presentation reflecting our real life connections and peek into the future and possibly travel there. [http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57610989-93/google-maps-becoming-more-context-aware-and-emotional/]
==== Amazon  ====
* Amazon is trying to get independent book stores to sell Kindles. [http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-source-indie-bookstores-can-sell-kindles-2013-11] Retailers will have the option of receiving 10% of every Kindle book purchased on Kindle devices sold by the bookstore for the first two years after a customer buys a device.


== Marketing, Press & Public Reaction  ==
== Marketing, Press & Public Reaction  ==

Revision as of 18:57, 6 November 2013

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Planning Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
  • Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
  • Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
  • irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
  • (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
  • Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
  • Vidyo Guest URL
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Actions from Last Week

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop & Platform

Current Releases

Beta (155)

Aurora (54)

Nightly (155)

Firefox Metro

READ ONLY

  • Team concluding Iteration #18 on Monday November 8.
  • 17 out of 30 Aurora 28 blocking bugs resolved this iteration representing 53 points.
  • Profile Sharing Feature - 18 out of 47 points completed - 29 remain for Iterations #19 and #20: View Bugs.
    • Uplift of Profile Sharing to Aurora 28 cannot be determined at this time. First round of QA will begin at the conclusion of Iteration #18.
  • To date, 19 bugs in the Backlog are blocking uplift to Aurora 28: View Bugs.
  • To date, 14 bugs remaining in Iteration #18 are blocking uplift to Aurora 28: View Bugs.

Bugzilla query error

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Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

Beta (155)

Fx26 (Ships 12/10)

Aurora (54)

Nightly (155)

Developer Tools

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Mobile

UX & User Research

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

  • Study: Vision Mobile's report on "How HTML Can Compete with Native" evaluates gaps between W3C APIs and implementation in browsers. [1]
  • Study: Pew's Internet & American Life Project examines how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives. [2] It breaks down reasons for non-usage into Relevance, Usability, Price and Lack of access.


Tencent

  • China's Tencent with over 1B users is about to overtake Facebook. [3]. Tencent's mobile messaging app WeChat has over 200m users, up three times from 2012 year-ending levels of around 85m. Tencent is also preparing $200m to place on a bid for US-based SnapChat. [4]


Microsoft

  • Microsoft is offering 11 goodies to developers who can demonstrate how they got 11% better page load performance in their organization’s home web page with Internet Explorer 11. [5]


Apple

  • Apple's new OS X Mavericks is focused on helping OS X users be more efficiently. Positives include multi-monitor support and iCloud Keychain for security, and negatives include broken email capabilities. [6] However, it is free for all Mac users, reflecting commoditized state of operating systems besides Apple's upcoming strategies with hardware differentiation. [7]


Google

  • Google's maps is evaluating integrating data about emotions, for example, places you've rated or people you hang out with, into an interactive visual presentation reflecting our real life connections and peek into the future and possibly travel there. [8]


Amazon

  • Amazon is trying to get independent book stores to sell Kindles. [9] Retailers will have the option of receiving 10% of every Kindle book purchased on Kindle devices sold by the bookstore for the first two years after a customer buys a device.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Questions, Comments, FYI

Actions this week

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