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These are more because they basically fizzled out or the company they were working with decided to stop working with them rather than just shutting down services that people use unlike Google. Once again seems like a Firefox hit piece similar to others that have been cropping up everywhere
I remember seeing some of this stuff when it came out and thinking “why are they doing this?” A bunch of it I never heard of, and a handful I wish had seen success (Firefox OS). Not sure how this counts as a hit piece, it didn’t seem mean spirited and definitely didn’t seem to be misrepresenting anything.
Most of the services Google kills are also because they “fizzled out”. If you scroll through the Killed by Google site, a lot of the stuff listed there were test apps or small-scale experiments that most people never heard about or cared to try, like all the apps under Area 120. There are a few high-profile examples (Reader, Stadia, etc) but they’re definitely not the majority, same as Mozilla.
Don’t donate money to Mozilla they don’t deserve it, much less need it after getting 500M from Google every year.
They also had a “fire” stick, didn’t they? Not to be confused with Amazon’s fire stick
Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchstick_TV
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I got one of those Firefox OS phones for work once, very cool idea but the performance just wasn’t good enough to be comfortable.