Thread: First thoughts about the (pre) Sailfish OS 2.0
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2015-09-15 , 22:53
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#378
Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Ah, by "reimplementing half the OS", would you mean "having to do the same amount of work on a GUI that Jolla has invested millions of dollars of seed capital and several years of dozens of programmer's lives to implement"?

It just seems a little off, I think, to demand that Jolla just give away all that work. Especially as their GUI is more or less what they are hanging their entire business model on...
The GUI is probably worthless for all intents and purposes. It's extremely limited and halfbaked, and its supposed USP (gestures) is done far better, more comprehensively and with vastly more configurability by numerous FREE Android launchers and ROMs. Android's basic UX is that of the entirely open source AOSP. All the primary Linux GUIs are open source and free. What on earth makes you think Jolla can mimic MS or Apple? Expecting people to pay for the GUI is hubris of the worst kind.

GUI is what they're hanging their business model on? Really? Given the above, not much of a business ... and they've had no business so far. Their biggest issue is that they've been trying to sell a product from day one, but they still barely have a product after all this time. Management seem to have been in a state of total denial.