Thread: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
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2013-10-06 , 05:30
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Originally Posted by jalyst View Post
Time-wise.
They're playing it very safe/boring, there's some WP influences, Android, & iOS, little that looks truly original/novel.
Being original and novel for the sake of being original and novel isn't any good. It also has to be productive and intuitive.

Sometimes being "original/novel" can equate with being non-intuitive and non-productive. Take Windows 8 itself, for example. It's so "original" and "novel" that it's not very intuitive (particularly when it's hard to find settings, applications or menus and you can't tell what's clickable and what's just a label) and not productive (particularly where overlapping windows are actually very, very productive for work and multitasking.. worse still is when you switch tasks without intending it with the trackpad and have a hell of a time getting back).

If Jolla is picking out the best features for everyone else, that sounds like a hybrid people might LIKE. I have no problem with that.
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