Thread: What is wrong with Jolla?
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gerbick
2015-12-21 , 17:38
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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
I hate to say it, but I have to disagree on this point. Apple did come up with a UX that takes noobs completely seriously. But it does so by leaving out the hackers.
I hate to say this... but hackers do not add up to much of a market. Each product hackers have loved has died. Hackers have never truly have amounted to a viable market - especially in regards to what sells the most, what's supported the most and above all... what will survive tomorrow.

In short, you simply can't make a universal UI. Every compromise made towards one group of users alienates the other group.
Damn straight. High level, let them have a pretty UX. They need it. Low level, give them a terminal and a way to slap any UI the hacker community likes today while maintaining and refining a high level UX that doesn't dictate the low end. Simply stated, know your power users wants/need and the casual users wants/needs.

In this sense, Jolla is (in my opinion) hitting a sweet spot; they've got a very powerful open-source framework (Mer on top of Android using Hybris), and a very user-friendly closed-source interface (Sailfish) on top of it.
Amen brother!

Open-sourcing Sailfish would be, I think, stupid...
Preach on!

However, I believe that a different UI should be built on top of Mer, a totally open-source UI that focusses instead on functionality and ease of access to features. You can't make a single universal mobile UI, but you can make two opposing UIs on top of a single universal mobile infrastructure. This, I think, is the optimal way forward...
Something else can be on top of Mer... it's just that they're quite horrible at the moment and make the product feel incomplete and work like **** once a use case outside of the original scope happens along and discovers holes and gaps in the UI/UX patterns.

I think your other thread Copernicus has altered the way I think in regards to how to deliver and this dual strategy of yours that's now in my rhetoric stems from your way of thinking. Keep sharing and keep talking...
 

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