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2015-11-19 , 15:59
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
But Asha, Firefox, Tizen and Ubuntu are all proofs that there is market for alternatives.
Uhm, really? Asha is dead. Tizen just looks like Samsung trying to create a Samsung OS, which doesn't really advance the cause of alternatives in my book. Firefox looks interesting, but I have to admit I don't know much about where they are going with their OS... And I don't know just what to think about Ubuntu.

Really, I've gotta ask, _is_ there a market for alternatives?

Unfortunately, they squandered the chance multiple times. Instead of making the phone pleasant to use by fixing bugs ("dirty spot"), they went off and spent 6 months porting a Qt update that introduced the OOM issues and ultimately killed the best thing there was about the phone - performance. Instead of improving the basic functionality (another "dirty spot"), they spent another twelve months if not more fiddling with the UI. The result is the controversial 2.0 that polarized the community like nothing before.
Well, ok then -- if you can't succeed unless your OS is perfectly bug-free, feature-complete, and pleasant to use, then yeah, only mega-corps will ever succeed, because only a mega-corp can manage that kind of trick upon the initial release of an OS.

And if gaining support from "the community" requires you to make choices that the entire community supports, I've gotta say that community support is a pipe dream, because there are no choices that the entire community supports. Every decision polarizes the community.

Well, they did it their way. Now you see the result.
Yup. And the lesson that will be learned, I'm afraid, is that it is stupid to do anything like they are doing; being open just doesn't pay (in every sense of that term).
 

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