Yesterday we received a surprising news and that is that the Mozilla Foundation, the foundation that maintains Mozilla Firefox as well as Thunderbird, among other famous software, has bought the company that created Pocket and all the software that it has produced, including Pocket.
In other words, Mozilla has bought Pocket. But despite this purchase, Mozilla has announced that Pocket will remain independent at least for now.
Mozilla has reported that Pocket will remain independent although it will be a subsidiary of Mozilla. Later, when Mozilla's management decides, the later reading service will be incorporated into the Free Software platform that Mozilla has created.
Currently Pocket has more than 10 million active users and in total, its servers store more than 30 million web pages which makes Pocket one of the most popular after-reading services in the world.
Pocket currently has more than 10 million users
The Firefox browser will be one of the first to undergo the changes in this commercial agreement since it was the first of the browsers to incorporate this service. But will not be the one. Google's Chrome, Vivaldi, and various Mozilla Firefox forks will also undergo changes with this purchase. Needless to say, that in the case of eReaders, this purchase will also have an impact.
EReaders like Kobo devices have long used Pocket, a software that has made many users opt for this type of eReaders. The eReaders with Android as the operating system also had the option of having Pocket through the Android app. And now it seems, that when Pocket is Free Software, Any manufacturer of eReaders will be able to incorporate this software into your device, including Amazon itself and your Kindle.
It is somewhat premature to talk about this, but eReaders that appear on the market later this year may pleasantly surprise us Do not you think?