Yesterday my partner Miguel put us on notice of Mozilla's intentions to get the Pocket service, a service that allows us to store articles to read later from any device, since it is multiplatform. Until a year ago, in the market we could find three applications of this type, but Readability closed because it could not find the formula to make the service profitable. Instapaper left the paid subscription system a few months ago and is currently completely free. The only one that today had a subscription system has been Pocket, a system that will probably no longer be operational after the acquisition by Mozilla.
As we can read in the official announcement that Mozilla has made, Pocket will join the Mozilla portfolio with a new line of products to promote the discovery and accessibility of high-quality web content. From various threads on Reddit it is stated that they could they will release all the code of the platform following their licensing policy. Currently the integration of Pocket with Firefox is perfect, something that does not happen with other browsers, but it is likely that over the months it improves substantially.
At the moment we do not know the price that this sale agreement has been able to reach, but according to media such as ReCode the total amount of the purchase would be between 14 and 15 million dollars. We also do not know if both Nate Weiner and the 25 engineers who were supporting the different applications and extensions available in the market will become part of Mozilla, although it is to be expected. Currently Pocket is used by 10 million users and over the years, it managed to surpass Instapaper, which although it came after Pocket managed to quickly surpass it