{"id":2364,"date":"2016-02-04T20:13:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2016-02-04T20:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:13:30","slug":"next-steps-for-connected-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2016\/02\/04\/next-steps-for-connected-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Steps for Connected Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently announced a pivot for Firefox OS to Connected Devices and I\u2019d like to share an update on the new product innovations we\u2019re working on in the IoT space.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been working on a Product Innovation Process to identify our new IoT product programs. This process pushes us to think about early-stage ideas as if they were tech-startup projects where teams advocating for them are required to demonstrate a clear consumer value proposition at all points or \u201cgates\u201d in the development cycle: validation (whether there is a problem to solve), productization (whether there is a market fit), and scaling.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, we have a good set of projects that have passed the first gate, including <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox_OS\/Smart_TV\" target=\"_blank\">more SmartTV work<\/a> (building on the success of our<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/firefox-os-will-power-new-panasonic-uhd-tvs-unveiled-at-ces\/\" target=\"_blank\"> work with Panasonic<\/a> in this space) and new opportunities such as FoxLink (a personal Web of Things) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=827y8fur5pc\" target=\"_blank\">Vaani<\/a>. We\u2019re working to open up this innovation process to non-staff participation soon.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Boot to Gecko (b2g) has been and will continue to be an<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla-b2g\" target=\"_blank\"> open source operating system<\/a> open to contribution.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re entering this exciting, fragmented IoT space to ensure users have choice through interoperable, open solutions, and for us to act as their advocates for data privacy and security. This is what we at Mozilla do best and it is indeed this intersection of opportunities and challenges that makes it the right time for Mozilla to focus on this new exciting phase of the Internet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently announced a pivot for Firefox OS to Connected Devices and I\u2019d like to share an update on the new product innovations we\u2019re working on in the IoT space. &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2016\/02\/04\/next-steps-for-connected-devices\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24660],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Next Steps for Connected Devices - Future Releases<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2016\/02\/04\/next-steps-for-connected-devices\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ari Jaaksi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2016\/02\/04\/next-steps-for-connected-devices\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2016\/02\/04\/next-steps-for-connected-devices\/\",\"name\":\"Next Steps for Connected Devices - 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