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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
The difference is that when the iPhone came out, it had no iPhone to compete with, if you catch my drift. The world has moved since 2007, releasing a half-baked system and expecting the masses swoon no longer works.
It's either half baked on release, or it will never release. That's the reality.

Same thing with many other projects, for example F-35 project gets similar gripes because not all weapons systems are working and certified. It's like "back in days we had everything working with F-16 on release and now they cannot do even that right..." without any consideration that since then the amount of different systems have multiplied and whereas older fighters were integrated cumulatively as those weapons systems were developed over timespan of multiple decades, some people now expect F-35 to do it in couple of years and judge the whole project as failure because not everything is ready at this very moment. It's very easy thing to do - just parrot what every not-so-objective armchair-general says. But in truth, most of it doesn't have anything to do with reality. And as with Jolla, much of bemoaning is actually result from the openness that was not present when those "good old planes" were developed....

Another thing is that we should not expect everything to happen instantly. It took Android years to break through, not to even mention all the money that was needed to do it. It's simply not realistic to think Sailfish will conquer the world in couple of years, if ever - but to be relevant it needs continued development and effort to get manufacturers to adopt it. In time it will earn it's niche, or it will die (and community will have "I told you so!1!!"-party).