Thread: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
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TheLongshot is offline TheLongshot
2012-07-17 , 17:39
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Originally Posted by specc View Post
This doesn't make sense to me. In what way, shape or form can this be more open than Android? Android kernels are open, this doesn't make Samsung's TouchViz open any more than it makes Nokias Swipe open. Still Android itself is open, much more so than Harmattan. When the ecosystem is closed, everything is closed from a user perspective. You use the device to access the ecosystem, that is the basic working principle of a smartphone.
It depends on how you define "open". Does the community have a say in the direction of Android? No. Can the community contribute to core Android functionality? No. Can you roll your own distribution of Android? Very limited.

If you go with Android, you go with whatever direction Google decides to go with it. If you are not an employee of Google, you have no say in that process.