Thread: Alternative history: What if Jolla never existed?
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2015-11-20 , 23:49
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Originally Posted by szopin View Post
Optimising the mess that is X is just as viable option to me as 'providing OS for all the abandoned HW', if this was a one weekend excercise, sure. Whole Jolla team worked for over a year to stabilise their own Jolla phone. Libhybris as revolutionary as it is, is brought down by the fact chinese manufacturers develop drivers only until it miraculously works for this specific configuration. With open drivers the latter at least would be a possibility (which could happen with tablet?)
In MY fictional world, Android didn't fork the kernel, and they used a standard C library, forcing all the binary hardware driver creators to write drivers for the standard kernel. They also used a stripped-down, open-source, GLES compositing, X server.

Even with all these differences in my fictional world, however, by 2015 all of the Android vendors are on different, ancient versions of the kernel, held back because the binary drivers would need to be updated to work with the new kernel, and the HW vendors can't be bothered.
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