This was a bit rushed, mostly because we realized two or three weeks ago or so that we will not get our own reading list in shippable state before June, esp. because synching the lists between devices in a fast and reliable way is hard and wasn't going to be there for the 38.0.5 release. Once the development team realized that, the choice was not to ship a solution for connecting your devices together (which would have sucked even more) or integrate with an existing service - and Pocket is both the largest one available and itself started off as a Firefox add-on originally (they had to rename from "Read It Later" to "Pocket" for trademark reasons). The integration code is open and it's planned to restructure it in the future so other read-it-later services can plug into it as well, similar to Social API (which we started with heavy Facebook integration, if you remember).
Depending on the time of day, the French go either way.
[^] # Re: Mozilla, que fais-tu ?
Posté par Frank-N-Furter . En réponse au journal Firefox : intégration de Pocket.. Évalué à 10.
http://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/35u720/firefox_beta_now_integrates_pocket/cr8sqk7
Depending on the time of day, the French go either way.