<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I'd like to understand the implications for existing apps that are installed. We are getting 400K apps installed per month on desktop and 25K per month installed on Android. There are about 3.3M total apps installed on Desktop and 900K on Android.<br><br></div>Will these apps stop working? Or will they only stop working if they use specific APIs (and exactly which ones)? Can apps be removed if they are already on a user's machine?<br><br></div><div>Marketplace has plans to remove submission and updates of apps for Desktop and Android in Q1, and disable the ability to install/open apps from Marketplace. <br><br></div><div>I put together some options last August for deprecating WebRT here (though perhaps dated): <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LG6HFCf0TY0fiweaoM_UDr74W24PhpJQSbwFT6X_9BY/edit#slide=id.p">https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LG6HFCf0TY0fiweaoM_UDr74W24PhpJQSbwFT6X_9BY/edit#slide=id.p</a><br><br></div><div>We decided to 'do nothing' at that point, but now we will need to put some plans in place so that we don't strand uses with apps they can't use and developers with supporting apps they don't wish to.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Marco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcastelluccio@mozilla.com" target="_blank">mcastelluccio@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The Web Runtime project has been my first serious contribution to Mozilla,<br>
so I'm kind of sad to see it die, but I strongly agree with Myk.<br>
<br>
We haven't spent much time in the last few years to improve it, we have never<br>
really finished up the work to integrate it fully in Firefox.<br>
<br>
I do hope and I'm confident that we've learned from our mistakes and we will<br>
make the experience with web-web apps (or, progressive web apps :D) better<br>
and well integrated in Firefox (e.g. by making them more discoverable in<br>
the homepage or in the new tab page, by making them pinnable in some way,<br>
by making it easy to find them again in the activity stream, etc.).<br>
<br>
- Marco.<br>
<br>
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