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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Congratulations for them! My guess, however, would be that the Pebble OS is just _slightly_ less complex than Sailfish.



Marketing, of course. It's been some years since Jolla formed, and they only had the Phone to show off their OS. As an aging device, and with no successor, the Phone is limited in how well it can advertise Sailfish. The Aigo x86, a low-cost tablet with a large "retina" screen, made for a perfect way to show off the beauty of Sailfish, and the Indiegogo campaign raised plenty of buzz.



Nothing I can say against that.



Well of course they do -- it's better than NO updates after months of delay.



Funny thing, I personally don't give a crap about UI/UX. If you really want a perfect user experience, get an iPhone -- Apple's spent billions getting the user experience right. But if you want freedom to access your file system, freedom to customize the OS, freedom to run your own software... Well, Jolla seems to give you that. Otherwise, get ready to spend hours (days?) hacking your device and voiding your warrantee...



Ah, if only. Had Jolla settled for a vanilla Aigo x86, we'd all have had tablets in our hands last Spring. But no, they had to get the _perfect_ screen to show off Sailfish. And so, endless delays.

BTW, if you want, you can check out my own thread on the Aigo x86:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=96002
Pebble is less complex, but on other hand they introduced totally new Os with new way of UX nad new UI and new functionality, while Jolla just introduced new features, part of them were implemented as patches before btw

And as of freedom, there are Androids (that can work on x86 too btw) that are almost 100% FOSS, so again if you do not care about UI or UX and you care about freedom, why not android, ubuntu phone or tizen, some of them are more open and more hacker friendly than Jolla.
And again if you want freedom, you can buy rpi or other already assembled kit with pure linux.
P.S. I bet the problem of "perfect" screen is PR, they have problems and they switched display, to justify they told it would be "better" display with no info for months :P

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Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
I doubt investors are interested to continue feed Jolla with money 2016....
I remember my argues with you few years back, when I told you that they doing it wrong and it goes that way and you tried to defense them blindly and finally you coming to sense :P
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