Mozilla Proposes “Awakening” as the Word for 2020, Urges Internet Users to Wake up to the Reality of the Internet

The Web was a chaotic place in 2019. Mozilla, a long-term advocate of internet health, revealed its strategy for the EMG (Emerging Markets Group) market in 2020, and said it hopes the word for the Internet in 2020 is “awakening”. It called on the public to increase their awareness and stay vigilant of privacy risks and security issues in an era where commercial interests come first and big data are heavily exploited online.

Stan Leong, Vice President & General Manager of Emerging Markets, Mozilla, said, “Moving forward in 2020, we focus our efforts on three strategic pillars - internet health advocacy, talent development, and product innovation. These pillars are targeted towards drawing the attention of the industry, government, and academia to the issue of Surveillance Economy (which commoditizes personal data of internet users).”

“We aim to open local recruitment, foster innovative thinking and help local talents connect to the world. In view of the deepening harms of Surveillance Economy on online security and privacy, we are exploring product innovation opportunities. We endeavor to develop technologies that truly empower users and allow everyone to benefit from what the digital world can offer,” he added.

Driving Innovations for Addressing Surveillance Economy

For talent development, Mozilla rolls out the Dev Tech Speaker Program that provides a platform for all the contributors to Mozilla, Firefox and Open Web to exchange ideas and increase their visibility around the world.

According to 2019 Iposos-World Economic Forum report¹, only 36% respondents trust various types of organizations with how they handle personal data. Mozilla is working on three key areas—content discovery and disinformation, identity systems and data commons—and conducting user research and product development in hopes of safeguarding people’s online privacy and security as well as the health of the internet. These topics are a priority for Mozilla this year with solutions revolving around:

• Creating chain(s) of trust for content


• Transparency of user data collection and usage


• Enabling an environment that balances identity and anonymity and empowering users to control their own digital identity

Firefox Lite now a comprehensive mobile browsing platform, added with new Travel feature

Since its launch in 2018, Firefox Lite has transformed into a global multi-function mobile browsing platform. Users can compare prices across multiple sites with Smart Shopping Search, play more than 100 popular free games without installing gaming apps, and stay up to date with trending news.

Today, Firefox Lite is further augmented with the whole new Travel feature, which partners with firms including Wikimedia, KKday, and Booking.com to offer a one-stop browsing experience. Users can search for destinations and instantly get travel recommendations, guides and hotel prices. Users can also add destinations and relevant guides to their bucket list, making travel planning much easier and quicker.

Additionally, with Enhanced Tracking Protection in Private Browsing, it protects users from third-party tracking cookies. Firefox Lite is now available in 30 markets, having expanded its presence to cover more countries in EMG including India.

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1: 2019 Iposos-World Economic Forum report: https://reurl.cc/M7Kmdm.

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What is the Surveillance Economy (or Surveillance Capitalism)? What impact will the Surveillance Economy have on people’s online life?

"Surveillance Capitalism describes a market-driven process where the commodity for sale is your personal data, and the capture and production of this data relies on mass surveillance of the internet. This activity is often carried out by companies that provide us with free online services, such as search engines (Google) and social media platforms (Facebook)."2

We have little real choice in our digital lives other than to acquiesce to systematic data collection and surveillance by corporations. Digital experiences are optimized to extract as much data about ourselves, our environment, and our behavior as possible while providing us with almost no opportunity to understand what data is being collected, who has access to this data, and how it’s being used to shape our behavior and opportunities.

The surveillance economy gives the watchers “unprecedented ... power… distinguished by extreme concentrations of knowledge and no democratic oversight.” (by Shoshana Zuboff). Yet these watchers are also sloppy and negligent, permitting their systems to be breached and gamed in ways that cause enormous harm to people, businesses, and society.3

Ola, Zomato, Practo, Ibibo and others Share Best Practices Ahead of the Data Protection law

In its first Indian edition of the ‘Privacy Matters’ roundtable, Mozilla brought together the brightest minds from India’s leading and upcoming online businesses to discuss practical issues surrounding data privacy. Held recently in New Delhi, the aim of the session was to drive the conversation on how businesses can make decisions about personal data more thoughtfully. This closed-door intensive meeting saw participation from a variety of companies - ranging from SMEs to large conglomerates, including Aditya Birla Group, Dunzo, Ibibo, Practo, Ola, Zeotap, Zomato, among others.

The 5-hour long session was conducted using Mozilla’s Lean Data Practices framework, that puts forth privacy principles and practical steps to implement them. With a mix of engineering, C-level, product and legal folks driving the discussions, the workshop focussed on the incentives for companies to stay “lean”, and minimize the personal data they collect and store; ways to build-in security features; and finally, effective ways to communicate with users and offer them more meaningful choices vis-à-vis their data.

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Urmika Shah, lead product and data counsel at Mozilla, Mountain View, led the discussion and shared, “It was great to see that many of the larger Indian SMEs have taken proactive measures to build in privacy and security features into their services, even prior to the enactment of India’ data protection law. For some, the incentive seems to come from the possibility of security breaches and reputational risks, and for others it’s their global presence or foreign investors.”

The discussions were divided into three segments as per the framework, covering key topics: “Engage users”, “Stay Lean” and “Build-in Security”.

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The first segment of the discussions focussed on how companies can better engage different audiences (such as end users, business clients, employees and investors) on issues of privacy. The observations reinforced the importance of providing more meaningful choices to users about their personal data at the time they are using the service, and making privacy notices more visible and easily comprehensible. In addition, companies expressed the need to better engage investors and boards on privacy issues to gain their support for implementing reforms.

The second section was on the importance of staying “lean” with data rather than collecting, storing, and sharing indiscriminately. Most companies agreed that collecting and storing less personal data mitigates the risk of potential privacy leaks, breaches and vulnerability to broad law enforcement requests. Staying lean does come with its own challenges, given that deleting data trails often comes at a high cost, or may be technically challenging when data has changed hands across vendors. It was agreed that there is a need for more innovative techniques to help pseudo-anonymize or anonymize such data sets to reduce the risk of identification of end-users while maintaining the value of service. Despite these challenges, responsible companies should do their best to adhere to the principle of deleting data within their control, when no longer required.

The third section covered key security features that could be built-in to the services. Many companies explained that their own security practices, especially relating to employee data access controls, have evolved as they grew in size. A key observation voiced by many companies was that vendors are often not scrutinized and may not always be welcoming to rigorous reviews of their data and security practices. This remains a key challenge in protecting the privacy and security of user data.

Amba Kak, Mozilla’s public policy advisor in India said, “In the lead up to India’s first data protection law, we need more such conversations that focus on implementing these principles, and how to overcome practical challenges.”, she concluded.

Data Privacy: Mozilla Hosting its 1st Round-Table in India with Top Online Businesses Including Zomato, Ola

Mozilla is hosting its first round-table as part of a series of thought exchanges, titled ‘Privacy Matters’. The aim of this session is to drive the conversation on privacy and how businesses can make decisions about personal data more thoughtfully. This closed-door intensive meeting will bring together several of the largest data-driven online companies such as Zomato, Ola, Practo, Dunzo, Ibibo and Zeotap, as well as upcoming start-ups.

The Privacy Matters meeting hopes to surface practical stories of challenges faced and to share lessons from the Indian context. Senior Executive from Mozilla headquarters, Urmika Shah - Lead Product and Data Counsel, will guide the discussions.

This meeting follows the recent launch of Lean Data ("www.leandatapractices.com"), Mozilla's set of public resources for any organization trying to better protect privacy and security of personal data. These include easy-to-use worksheets for documenting data categories collected, deletion and de-identification, response plans for security breaches and simple strategies for making privacy policies more meaningful.

The Lean Data Practices approach is to evaluate what you have at a deep level to understand what data is sensitive.

On the broad relevance of the lean data framework, Shah comments, “Lean Data can work in any sector: business, civil society, government. It can be spearheaded by any department: marketing, advocacy, engineering, product, design, compliance, privacy, legal, customer support. All it requires is a commitment to make data decisions thoughtfully."

Amba Kak, Mozilla’s Public Policy Advisor in India, adds, “The discussion on data privacy in India has been focused on upcoming laws and policy. We feel now is the right time to take stock of how these principles can be implemented in practice.”

The Internet is Unhealthy and Urgently Need Attention, Warns Mozilla

Internet has become an indispensable part of our personal and professional lives. Whether it is keeping in touch with a relative abroad or doing business all around the world, internet has made all this possible. But, what if I tell you that the thing you're this dependent on is very unhealthy and urgently needs attention? Well this is exactly what Mozilla has to say.

According to Mark Surman, executive director of Firefox maker the Mozilla Foundation, while we have been in awe of what all internet has made possible over the last three decades, we somewhere have turned a bling eye to the perilous state of the Internet, and how we, as its users, need to help save it.

From last year's very dangerous Mirai attack that had single-handedly caused one of the worst distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattacks that the world and infected internet-connected devices in over 177 countries all around the world to government surveillance, market concentration and data breaches, censorship and policies that are putting an axe on innovation, all these are signs that the internet is dangerously unhealthy and needs immediate attention.

Pointing towards the rise of Internet of Things, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence, Surman said that internet's safety has now become more important than ever because now we don't just use a computer, "we live inside it."

According to Surman, How the internet works -- and whether it's healthy or now -- now has a direct impact on our privacy, our economies, our democracies and ultimately, our happiness.

Surman's insights on the health of internet coincides with the release of nonprofit Mozilla's first 'prototype' of the Internet Health Report, which is a detailed report on the various healthy and unhealthy trends that are shaping the modern day internet. The report talks about five key areas: decentralization, open innovation, privacy, digital inclusion, and security, and web literacy.
Mozilla is looking to officially launch the first report after October, once it has successfully incorporated all the feedback received on the prototype.

While according to statistics available, currently, there are more than over 1.1 billion websites running on mostly open-source software, which is being considered as a good sign for open innovation, but Mozilla thinks that the internet has to constantly dodge hardballs from bad policy, such as outdated copyright laws, restrictive digital-rights management, and secretly negotiated trade agreements,

Mozilla also notes that since mobiles have ben responsible for putting more than three billion people online today, there were a total of 56 internet shutdowns last year, a number significantly up from 15 shutdowns in the year 2015.

The report also highlights Mozilla's fears about how even though internet's decentralized design is protected by laws, it is under a serious threat by a few players, including Google, Apple, Facebook, Tencent, Alibaba and Amazon, who are monopolizing the messaging, search and commerce sectors.

According to it,"While these companies provide hugely valuable services to billions of people, they are also consolidating control over human communication and wealth at a level never before seen in history."

Mozilla is in favour of the wider adoption of encryption in communications and on the web, but it wants us to keep an eye out for the new emerging surveillance laws, such as the United Kingdom's Snooper's Charter.

The report wants to draw the world's attention towards the policies on web literacy which just focus on learning coding or how to use a computer, while completely ignoring other literacy skills, such as separating ads from search results and educating them on how to spot fake news.

The report also called for safety standards, rules and accountability measures in the light of the Mirai malware attack that happened last year and abused unsecured webcams and other IoT devices in over 177 countries.

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Mozilla Introduces 'The Open Innovation Toolkit' For Product Development's Best Practices

Mozilla, the company most famous among the masses for its free and open-source web browser Firefox, has always claimed to have innovation as an important part of their DNA. They not only make products that support the open web, but they make them with an approach which is totally participatory and transparent.

Unfortunately, open innovation does come with a paradox. While on one side, the diversity of open community does results in a phenomenal increase in quality solutions, but on the other side, employing practices such as human-centered design across a distributed group can end up being major hard work. But, at the end, it is highly important if one really wants to solve the problems being faced by their users, keep the high quality of experience intact, and finally keep creating innovative products that the users really, really want.

In order to cater to this problem, Mozilla has developed its very own Open Innovation Toolkit, a community-sourced set of some of the best practices, methods and principles, that is capable of helping one successfully incorporate human-centered design into their one product development process. Whether you have just conceived a new idea or have a working prototype that requires testing, the Open Innovation Toolkit will come to your rescue in both the situations and many more.

According to Mozilla, the Open Innovation Toolkit is a collection of easy-to-use, self-serve techniques that have been accumulated together from some of the best practices in the industry. Though they're not specifically new to the industry but when combined they give birth to a magnificent knowledge bank of methods that even Mozilla has found useful every now and then.

With its Open Innovation Toolkit, Mozilla aims to equip everyone in need with a common vocabulary and a set of important and proven tolls that are required to incorporate human-centered design into their product development process.

According to Mozilla, during their journey to come up with Open Innovation Toolkit, they have learned and drawn inspiration from various other similar ideas. One of them was the DIY toolkit by Nesta, which focused towards social innovation. Nesta’s DIY toolkit  has found users in many big, global organisations like Women in Global Democracy, Kent city planning council etc.

It seems Mozilla has provided everyone in open source product development, right from developers to advocates, something interesting to play around with, constructively of course.

New Mozilla's Firefox OS Dongle at $25 - A Serious Threat to Chromecast

Mozilla and Matchstick announced a new Firefox Operating System powered HDMI dongle on Wednesday. The $25 dongle is being considered as their open-source take on the Chromecast. In an effort to lower the price tag, the HDMI dongle will first be made available through Kickstarter.

A serious threat to Chromecast, Firefox OS powered dongle called 'Matchstick' is essentially a small, WiFi-connected HDMI stick that plugs into your HDTV or HD Monitor that lets you stream and interact with your favorite stuff from the Internet - movies, TV, music, games etc. You can even use it in a conference room to get presentations or other media from your laptop to an HDTV. All in all much similar to what Google's Chromecast offer but its cheaper than Chromecast has open-source software and open-source hardware as well which means now developers can build their your own TV dongle just like Chromecast.

Matchstick is the world's first open source software and open source hardware HDMI streaming dongle. Matchstick provides full hardware design source files for interested developers, device manufacturers and service providers to build their unique TV streaming devices.



Jack Chang, General Manger, Matchstick, US described the HDMI dongle as "essentially an open Chromecast". The device at $25 is still cheaper than Chromecast which is available for $35 in the market. Further, the kickstarter is making the streaming Internet and media stick available at an early bird price of $12 and a regular price of $18.



Matchstick has an initial plan of raising around $100,000. A free shipping of the dongle will be provided in the United States and an additional $5 will be charged for international shipping. The full breakdown for the kickstarter goal amount is as follows:

1) Pledge $2 or more: This donation amount will be used to support the open software and open hardware platform.

2) Pledge $12 or more: The first five hundred units of the HDMI dongle will be made available at this price.

3) Pledge $18 or more: This is the price at which the streaming Internet and media stick will be offered to everyone else during the Kickstarter campaign.

4) Pledge $24 or more: 250 developer units will be offered in prototype. This includes access to all APIs and SDKs and Matchstick team’s developer support.

5) Pledge $34 or more: Two Matchsticks will be made available at this price.

6) Pledge $ 160 or more: 10 Matchsticks will be made available. Extra shipping charges of $10 for International shipping and free shipping in the US.

7) Pledge $ 10,000 or more: Four Matchsticks will be made available at this price along with a bunch of Matchstick swag. On the top of that, a trip for the one who was pledged the amount to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Les Vegas along with a guest. The trip would include a stay at the Venetian, free passes to the CES show, $200 daily spending money, a show one night and a dinner with the team.

The startup is hoping to get the HDMI dongle into the developer hands by November this year and everyone else’s by February next year.

Mozilla is playing a huge role in the Matchstick’s debut since the device runs on the Firefox Operating System. This device is a part of Mozilla’s plan of pushing its OS into more devices than just Smartphones.

Both Mozilla and Matchstick share the same vision about the device: the first streaming stick which is free of any walled garden ecosystem. This vision means the constraints of Google Play doesn’t exist with this HDMI dongle.

New Mozilla's Firefox OS Dongle at $25 - A Serious Threat to Chromecast

Mozilla and Matchstick announced a new Firefox Operating System powered HDMI dongle on Wednesday. The $25 dongle is being considered as their open-source take on the Chromecast. In an effort to lower the price tag, the HDMI dongle will first be made available through Kickstarter.

A serious threat to Chromecast, Firefox OS powered dongle called 'Matchstick' is essentially a small, WiFi-connected HDMI stick that plugs into your HDTV or HD Monitor that lets you stream and interact with your favorite stuff from the Internet - movies, TV, music, games etc. You can even use it in a conference room to get presentations or other media from your laptop to an HDTV. All in all much similar to what Google's Chromecast offer but its cheaper than Chromecast has open-source software and open-source hardware as well which means now developers can build their your own TV dongle just like Chromecast.

Matchstick is the world's first open source software and open source hardware HDMI streaming dongle. Matchstick provides full hardware design source files for interested developers, device manufacturers and service providers to build their unique TV streaming devices.



Jack Chang, General Manger, Matchstick, US described the HDMI dongle as "essentially an open Chromecast". The device at $25 is still cheaper than Chromecast which is available for $35 in the market. Further, the kickstarter is making the streaming Internet and media stick available at an early bird price of $12 and a regular price of $18.



Matchstick has an initial plan of raising around $100,000. A free shipping of the dongle will be provided in the United States and an additional $5 will be charged for international shipping. The full breakdown for the kickstarter goal amount is as follows:

1) Pledge $2 or more: This donation amount will be used to support the open software and open hardware platform.

2) Pledge $12 or more: The first five hundred units of the HDMI dongle will be made available at this price.

3) Pledge $18 or more: This is the price at which the streaming Internet and media stick will be offered to everyone else during the Kickstarter campaign.

4) Pledge $24 or more: 250 developer units will be offered in prototype. This includes access to all APIs and SDKs and Matchstick team’s developer support.

5) Pledge $34 or more: Two Matchsticks will be made available at this price.

6) Pledge $ 160 or more: 10 Matchsticks will be made available. Extra shipping charges of $10 for International shipping and free shipping in the US.

7) Pledge $ 10,000 or more: Four Matchsticks will be made available at this price along with a bunch of Matchstick swag. On the top of that, a trip for the one who was pledged the amount to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Les Vegas along with a guest. The trip would include a stay at the Venetian, free passes to the CES show, $200 daily spending money, a show one night and a dinner with the team.

The startup is hoping to get the HDMI dongle into the developer hands by November this year and everyone else’s by February next year.

Mozilla is playing a huge role in the Matchstick’s debut since the device runs on the Firefox Operating System. This device is a part of Mozilla’s plan of pushing its OS into more devices than just Smartphones.

Both Mozilla and Matchstick share the same vision about the device: the first streaming stick which is free of any walled garden ecosystem. This vision means the constraints of Google Play doesn’t exist with this HDMI dongle.

Mozilla to launch $25 phone in India in partnership with Intex & Spice

Mozilla is all prepared to launch the first Firefox OS devices in India in next few months. For this venture, it has partnered with Indian handset brands Spice and Intex.

The specifications of these Smartphones haven’t reveled by the companies yet but according to the reference design, they might have a 3.5 HVGA touch screen display, integrated Wi-Fi, camera, FM along with a Spreadtrum SC6821 processor.

Mozilla earlier this year introduced its new range of Firefox OS devices at the MWC 2014. It also announced a $25 reference design powered by a Spreadtrum processor.

The Smartphones will start from $25 (Rs. 1,500 approximately). According to Gong Li, who is the Chief Operating Officer at Mozilla, with a price tag of $25, there will be no price gap left between a feature phone and smart phone. With this low price range, Mozilla will aim to motivate the people in making the switch from feature to Smartphones.

Low-cost Smartphones have become a hit in emerging markets like India. Though the Firefox handsets might not be able to fight with its Windows, iOS and Android counterparts but it surely will be able to grab the eyeballs of first time Smartphones buyers with its attractive low price range.

According to Sanjay Kumar Kalirona, Business Head, Mobile, Intex technologies (India) Ltd, Intex’s association with Mozilla will enable them to develop unparalleled smart devices on the Firefox OS latest platform. This will further give them an edge in upgrading feature phone users to Smartphones while at the same time making it affordable for the mass market. This association will make their devices much more than just a way to use the Web. It will take the engagement further and develop the Web as a mobile platform. Intex’s Firefox OS-powered Cloud FX Smartphones will be available in the Indian market by early August.

On the other hand, Dilip Modi, Co-founder and CEO of Spice states that they are pleased to be associated with Firefox OS devices as they have always been technology innovators in the Indian telecom industry. According to him, this association is symbolic of their commitment in providing first-hand technological innovations experience to their customers. Spice has announced that its Mozilla Firefox OS devices will be available in the Indian market by July 2014 and it would come with a dual SIM support.

 

Mozilla to launch $25 phone in India in partnership with Intex & Spice

Mozilla is all prepared to launch the first Firefox OS devices in India in next few months. For this venture, it has partnered with Indian handset brands Spice and Intex.

The specifications of these Smartphones haven’t reveled by the companies yet but according to the reference design, they might have a 3.5 HVGA touch screen display, integrated Wi-Fi, camera, FM along with a Spreadtrum SC6821 processor.

Mozilla earlier this year introduced its new range of Firefox OS devices at the MWC 2014. It also announced a $25 reference design powered by a Spreadtrum processor.

The Smartphones will start from $25 (Rs. 1,500 approximately). According to Gong Li, who is the Chief Operating Officer at Mozilla, with a price tag of $25, there will be no price gap left between a feature phone and smart phone. With this low price range, Mozilla will aim to motivate the people in making the switch from feature to Smartphones.

Low-cost Smartphones have become a hit in emerging markets like India. Though the Firefox handsets might not be able to fight with its Windows, iOS and Android counterparts but it surely will be able to grab the eyeballs of first time Smartphones buyers with its attractive low price range.

According to Sanjay Kumar Kalirona, Business Head, Mobile, Intex technologies (India) Ltd, Intex’s association with Mozilla will enable them to develop unparalleled smart devices on the Firefox OS latest platform. This will further give them an edge in upgrading feature phone users to Smartphones while at the same time making it affordable for the mass market. This association will make their devices much more than just a way to use the Web. It will take the engagement further and develop the Web as a mobile platform. Intex’s Firefox OS-powered Cloud FX Smartphones will be available in the Indian market by early August.

On the other hand, Dilip Modi, Co-founder and CEO of Spice states that they are pleased to be associated with Firefox OS devices as they have always been technology innovators in the Indian telecom industry. According to him, this association is symbolic of their commitment in providing first-hand technological innovations experience to their customers. Spice has announced that its Mozilla Firefox OS devices will be available in the Indian market by July 2014 and it would come with a dual SIM support.

Firefox OS Stable version released to compete with Android and Tizen

Mozilla released new Firefox OS first stable version, this is Mozilla's new mobile operating system that will compete with Android OS and Samsung backed Tizen mobile OS. Firefox OS is an open source OS with latest release brings a lot of new features and improvements that were missing on the initial release (not stable).

The Firefox OS running smartphones can be a lot cheaper options with equivalent or may be more more features than Android OS.

Firefox OS users can now send MMS messages, while the developers can use the new push notification APIs, which allow for timely notifications and reduction in battery consumption. Furthermore, Mozilla has enhanced the contact manager, which now supports Gmail and Hotmail contact import, adding a number to a contact when it’s listed in the call log, SMS message or email.Additionally, Firefox OS now have the smart dial feature, which works just as expected.

Android OS had made smartphones more affordable comparing to proprietary based mobile OS such as iOS, Windows or Blackberry. An Android smartphones can be bought within price range of Rs.8,000-Rs.15,000 easily, Firefox OS which unlike to Google or Apple backed by a non-profit organization and as Mozilla says - 'We're out to make a difference, not a profit', Mozilla will surely give a stiff competition to Android and iPhones once its available for sale across the globe.

One can purchase Firefox OS on a ZTE Open handset or on an Alcatel One Touch device. More devices will be announced over the next few weeks. ZTE Open powered by Firefox OS is available at price of $249 however in India ZTE Open 3G Unlocked phone is available at eBay India at mere price of RS.6,500.

Available in 3 languages - Spanish, Polish and English 17 operators spanning the globe are currently distributing Firefox OS devices: América Móvil, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Hutchison Three Group, KDDI, KT, MegaFon, Qtel, SingTel, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia Group, Telefónica, Telenor, TMN and VimpelCom.

In Coming weeks more countries and mobile phone operators will be selling Firefox OS.

Most smartphones are made by a small number of people, all in one place, probably pretty far from where you live. Firefox OS phones are different they're made by a huge global community probably could give lot more features to users over the years gradually.