Thread: When will real Sailfish OS "1.0" be released?
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ggabriel is offline ggabriel
2014-01-07 , 11:28
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
On the whole, in my opinon Sailfish is pretty good package for an os labeled as beta, much more mature OS releases (well, releases not claimed as beta by the said companies at least) by much larger companies suffer just as many problems and critical bugs
I can't agree more.

Originally Posted by IlkkaP
Judging on the shear number of reported bugs and missing features, I would think Jolla needs half a year to fix the OS, then release a true "beta" version next summer and test that for a couple of months, and have a stable "1.0" release next autumn.
Maybe... "beta" is subjective. Remember the SDK? It's still "alpha" and yet it's the most complete and functional out of the box SDK I've seen. Tried Android and iOS and you either end up downoading 10 things from different places and installing them in the wrong order -or- paying for it to find out that your Mac OS X is too old/slow/you didn't accept the latest T&C's.

I'm personally not ready to tell non-tech friends and family that this phone is for them, and when I will be ready, I reckon the OS will be stable for me, but one needs to be careful... the non-tech user may never install an update in their lives. I've got fairly young friends who are still on iOS4 in an iPhone 4 (!!!) and my gf's mother hasn't updated her E7 to Belle (but I wouldn't trust her to do so safely anyway).

With stable releases, you also get very few updates, if none until the next release, which could be in a year. And that's ok.

The real question to me is: what is 1.0's scope in terms of features? We do know that they are stabilising the OS, and it will be stable enough for the beta tag to be removed, I do wonder about features though, some of which are coming (e.g., LTE).
 

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