Firefox/Planning/2013-09-04

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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

  • joduinn - to book meeting with finkle,asa,marco to discuss metro on trains

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Current Releases

Beta (146)

Aurora (54)

Nightly (147)

Firefox Metro

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

Beta (146)

Aurora (54)

Nightly (147)

Developer Tools

  • Last week was a work week in Paris
  • Epic demo screencasts of work in progress:
  • contributor Luca Greco ported the Ember.js Chrome extension to Firefox as a weekend hack.
  • Code-name 'Applicator' on track to land in 26, planning WebAPI emulation prioritization for 27 & 28 cycles.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Mobile

UX & User Research

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Mobile

  • Microsoft is buying Nokia's devices business for 3.79 billion Euros and is licensing its patent portfolio for 10 years for another 1.65 billion Euros. The transaction is expected to complete in Q1 of 2014. Stephen Elop, Nokia's CEO, will be taking the position of Executive VP of Devices & Services at Microsoft. Nokia still retains the network equipment business and the mapping service HERE. Microsoft will also be licensing HERE for the next 4 years, as well as the device brands Lumia and Asha for current devices. New smartphones cannot use the Nokia brand.


  • A report from Kantar places Windows Phone as a significant contender for the entry - level smartphone market in Europe. The agency studied device purchases for the 3 months leading up to July in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain and calculated that 8.2% of sales were on Windows Phone. This is the highest - ever level in those markets. The report also places the platform at 11.6% of sales in Mexico and the first time that the platform took number two in a major market.


  • Google announced 1 billion Android activations and the name of the next version (4.4) to be KitKat. The main driver behind the evolution of the platform, however, are becoming the proprietary Google services that are updated through the Play Store. Ars Tehnica has a feature on them.


  • Google bought WIMM Labs, a smartwatch maker, after a long relationship with the start-up.


  • Local smartphone OEMs are gaining significant market share in Asia - Pacific. Up to 39% of units sold in Q2 2013 were from brands like MyPhone, Cherry Mobile, Xiaomi, Coolpad and K-Touch. While MyPhone and Cherry Mobile are popular in the Philippines, Xiaomi is gaining in the Chinese market alongside Lenovo and Samsung, and Micromax is going for the Indian market. Other brands include Smartfren in Indonesia, Ninetology and S-CSL in Malaysia, Q-Star and Mobiistar in Vietnam and i-Mobile in Thailand.


  • The UK operator Three is dropping international roaming charges for its customers in 7 countries. When traveling to the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, Sweden and Denmark, customers will be billed as if they were still in the UK. This is significant in particular for data charges, as international calls and messages (to non - UK numbers) will still be billed as usual.


  • Upcoming news: IFA, Europe's largest consumer tech show is going on this week in Berlin. Samsung and Sony will be making announcements. And next week Apple will hold a press event.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

PR

"Firefox’s developer tools remain the niftiest in browserdom, offering the same code-scrutinizing capabilities as Safari and Chrome, but in a much sleeker, eye-catching package. I especially like its 3D view; the deeper each element on the page is nested, the more it protrudes toward you." - Nathan Alderman, MacWorld

"In the long run, Web Components will change how developers build their web apps and make it easier to reuse – and share – UI components. With both Mozilla and Google actively backing this development, it’s only a matter of time before these polyfills will only be necessary to support legacy browsers, though it’s not always clear when the main browser vendors plan to fully implement it.” - Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch

Questions, Comments, FYI

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