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Originally Posted by billranton View Post
Me too. Which mistakes are you referring to? My view on Jolla is that they've specifically tried to avoid some of the frustrations of Nokia, most significantly the poor amount of PRs we'd get after release.
Sure, that's definitely an improvement!

My main gripe is that Sailfish OS should have been fully open source from the start (even in the dual licensed/CLA arrangement proposed on latest community meeting) after all the problems the half open/half closed nature of Fremantle on the N900 and Harmattan on the N9 caused. Would it be enough to avoid the current crisis ? I don't know, but all the closed bits apparently didn't bring any profitable licensing deals and other income either...

And I guess my second gripe is neglected developer ecosystem - it has been like this already for the N900 and N9 and I'm afraid a lot of mistakes are being repeated for the third time - hard to reach & immature store system, limited allowed APIs in store, incomplete or missing documentation, critical issues faced by app developers remaining unfixed, etc. Given that apps are usually the lifeblood of a platform and more or less the reason people are buying smartphones in the first place, I think this is something that needs to be improved or else consequences are dire.
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