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Originally Posted by strongm View Post
Apple have fewer things that need fixing ...
That depends on what needs fixing, right?

The whole Apple-UI and experience is geared for the few workflows that Jobs/Ivy design school thinks that user should be able to do. Those things are made very smooth and debugged well so there are not that many extra glitches but god forbid if you want to do something dfferently, you are pretty much swimming against the current!

In my opinion there's a huge gap of stuff to be fixed for an iPhone ever to became useful to me. Not the bugfix-kind, but the missing-functionality-kind.


Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
My personal impression of "all the things that need fixing" on the Jolla phone is that this is developing a life of its own and becoming an urban legend.

I have to use the Android phone my company dictates for work, so I use the Jolla phone weekends and evenings and the Samsung MO-FR during daytime.

Comparing the two on a daily basis makes me a lot more forgiving towards the little glitches Jolla still suffers from. There's exactly two real bugs in Sailfish at this moment (browser links and wifi issues) that I have to work around and fortunately can work around easily. Everything else is cosmetical, nice to have enhancements that take time and that Android sure didn't offer during its first year. At the same time, I find myself re-booting the Samsung phone because its keyboard gets stuck again, calling it names because of the idiotic behaviour of the front button and the strange settings logic, or finding that yet again I cannot perform an operation the way I want because only sailfish can.
I do not have such experiences with Samsungs as I have not ever owned one or used one for a lengthier period, but I have observed my wife's daily struggles with her WP8 Lumia device, and I have to say that appears to behave exacly the same way
There are almost every day mysterious glitches, many operations fail to work the way you'd expect them to, or are impossible to do... There are often glitches that force you to reboot the device to make it work again... sometimes stuck so that you need to remove the battery to get the device to boot again...

And just like iPhone, the WP devices are so limited, with so poor feature set I could not ever be satisfied using them. Just for basic phonecalls ans messaging, but there's nothing else I could use the things for!


Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
What I want to say is that yes, Jolla does have its issues but no, it's not the only company on the market that delivers less than 100% perfect phones. (I'd never touch an Apple product, but I hear that they have issues, too.) And in direct comparison, the small boat from Finland does a lot better than one would expect - I'd rather use my Jolla all day long than take the Samsung to work.
Currently Jolla is the only company really listening to its customers, instead of just throwing a bag of features/updates to you twice a year. A bag of not-known/not-requested updates, containing possibly fixes to your problems but with no changelog whatsoever!
That's how these large companies treat you, not like customers but like cattle to be fed what they graciously provide.

In their eyes you are not customers, you are just serfs to be bound to their service network, you are just small gears and bearings in the machine that makes money for the companies. The devices are not made for you, the features are not there for you, all is cleverly made to force you tighter in their net, to milk you of your worth and identity.
 

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