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Originally Posted by ejjoman View Post
When you hated *all* design decisions they made, then I think Sailfish OS is simply not for you.
Sailfish OS is not an Android clone and I hope it will never be.
If you want something like Android, then use Android.
Well I'm not a fan of Android. In particular because switching between apps on my S4 is still nowhere near as seemless as it was on the N900/N9. All I wanted was an N9 with better specs.

Things I disliked about Sailfish during my short trial on the N9:

- Visual style. Its just weird and painful to the eyes.
- Text for commonly used actions. Where are the icons? I hate text-based UIs.
- Pulley menu gets stuck and doesn't feel right.
- Fade-out for 'pushing' an app to the background doesn't feel right.
- I thought swipe to go back was a good idea at first, but it requires your thumb to swipe from left to right, which doesn't work nearly as well as from right to left. I'd rather have a button at the bottom left for going back.
- The arrangement of the home screens, notification screen etc. is not particularily intuitive.
- When I swipe away the lock screen it doesn't seem to go back to the app I opened before. Unlocking the phone is something I do 100x a day, and at best every unlock should take me directly to the app I was using before locking the phone.

Anyway, the problems I had may be solved by now or were due to the fact that I tested Sailfish OS on my N9.

Last edited by Rugoz; 2015-02-21 at 16:19.
 

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