IMHO, the bigger issue is that they refused to sell their stuff in stores and on the internet for a long long time. You had to buy from select retailers or a local rep that threw “tupper ware parties.”
A lot of use just moved to other brands that were easier to find, and when we wanted to replace stuff that never got returned by a neighbor, we bought more of the same stuff.
Tupperware is a weird ass company and for the longest time you couldn’t buy their products in a store or online. You had to go to a “Tupperware party” and buy them from a local rep.
Eventually they started to sell in select stores and eventually online.
By “digital first, technology led,” they basically mean they’re playing catchup with e-commerce basics.
That was Foxcon, not TSMC. And all of us have a LOT of shit in our homes made by Foxcon.
Not that it justifies the shit Foxcon did. Just saying that Apple got a lot of flack, even though a lot of other companies should be scrutinized for their manufacturing contractor choices. Microsoft, Sony, etc.
Less risk of tariffs on China, less risk of supply chain disruptions like with the pandemic, takes advantage of incentives from the US government, and is something that is cool to advertise.
Maybe I should’ve said “midsize.”
My point is that they’re not a company with tens or hundreds of thousands of employees. And, as someone that usually likes to work at companies that are about size, you can run out of engineers pretty quickly if you’re not focused and or working on stuff that is wickedly complex. And Mozilla is definitely doing the latter.
The foundation is about 80 folks on payroll, although OSS projects have about 1000 contributors popping in and out.
There is also the “MZLA Technologies” subsidiary, which I think has some dedicated headcount under it as well. Although, there isn’t a lot of public info about that company.
They have about 750 employees.
(According to Wikipedia)
Venn diagram right:
Me in 1996 when Metallica plays a surprise free concert in a Tower Records parking lot and the boys are trying to spread the word.
Venn diagram left:
Hezbollah in Lebanon
Venn diagram overlap:
“Damn, my pager is blowing up!”
Complicating things further, former President Donald Trump has demanded that the House pass the bill as is, and let the government shut down if they can't get it through.
This fucking guy again. Cause chaos, then run as the solution to the chaos.
270 active users isn’t much for a masto instance.
Given that Mozilla is a small company, and small company’s really can’t afford to lose focus for the major roadmap initiatives, I’m going to bet that this was someone’s hackathon project.
Copper, Pyrite, LETS FUCKING GO!
IMHO, they had a weird ass business model that was about selling direct to consumers through local reps and “Tupperware parties.”
Their competitors sold comparable products in stores and online waaaay before Tupperware woke up. And by the time they woke up, people had already had moved on to other brands.
They’re paying the price for dumb decisions made years ago. They basically handed their food container market dominance over to other companies.