Mobile/ProductPlanning/Notes-2014-03-04

Hot items

Firefox Accounts & Sync - status? Currently shown as "at risk" - still true?
APK Synthesis - status? Are we still waiting to see if we can get production servers up in time for beta?
Snippets - status? Can we start testing this on Nightly again yet?
Hub
- Moving most of this to Fx32 & hoping to secure some great partners for a September launch
- Fx30 will focus mainly on RSS support (2 add-ons) - does it look like we'll be able to get this part finished and polished in time for Fx30?
- Deb & Ian need to put together project pages for each of the P1 add-ons, with finalized stories & designs
Product Announcements - what are the next steps for getting this sorted out? I'm not sure what the problem is, but it would be nice to get this sorted out ASAP.
RTL support - status?

We're hiring a Product Marketing Manager - the job posting is up and everyone should post it to their social networks:
- https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oBtJXfwu

Something about a trade show last week that had something to do with mobile.
The Nokia X series of phones are more than just an entry level device. They're dual-sim variants that represent Nokia's take on a phone geared towards an emerging market sans Google, and offer those markets an entry point for MS services where Android development is the 800lb Gorilla.
Chipsets, chipsets, and more chipsets. Faster processors, quad/octo/hexa-cores, faster wifi, new 64-bit platforms from places like Intel, Samsung and MediaTek (and others) dominated a lot of the hardware talk at MWC vs. innovations in the handsets themselves. Look for robust platforms at lower price points, putting a serious crimp on feature phones moving forward.
Phablets going mainstream - many people calling the tablet market as commoditized after 3 short years, with increased focus on the phablet (I'm sorry this is an actual thing) market, which offers considerably better economics and distribution.

We are moving the primary Firefox Hub stuff to Firefox 32, and will focus only on RSS stuff for Fx30. I need to change the roadmap to reflect that.
I also need to work a Firefox Marketplace Discovery Feed add-on into the mix somewhere - maybe Fx31? Will sort that out offline, this is just FYI.