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xpe07/31/20252 repliesview on HN

The end of Pocket is just another sad example.

As an April fools joke, Mozilla should announce that they are discontinuing Firefox in order to focus on their core business, which is a beautiful abstraction: the Platonic ideal of discontinuing popular products.


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paulryanrogers07/31/2025

Strange. I remember reading nothing but complaints about Pocket when they bought and integrated it. I guess it grew on people.

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coredog6407/31/2025

That they're being bought by Google so that they can focus on the Platonic ideal of discontinuing popular products.