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JulmaHerra	2016-01-18 , 14:34
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Originally Posted by aegis

Like many things on together.jolla.com - it's apparently the community that decides.

As I mentioned: damend if you do, damned if you don't.

It's not difficult - they just had to look at the N9 and better it or at least MATCH it and they are still not even close.

Including Nokia's proprietary bits they didn't have access to in the first place?

I know there was a race to get the phone out but seriously, who doesn't design in scalability from the start these days?

He who doesn't have the luxury of having enough time and resources for everything, and the one who doesn't at that specific moment have more than one device to support. Mind you that the whole UI was rewritten in about six months because of loss of NovaThor SoC. It meant:

- changing from X to Wayland
- changing Qt4 to Qt5 unstable, writing and backporting quite a lot to it and then updating to stable release, which was painful
- Writing libhybris to accommodate lack of native drivers available
- Redesing the device for another SoC

So, it's easy to see that during that time scalability was not the top priority. The easiest part is to say "I would have done it otherwise." But the thing is: you weren't there. You didn't do the decisions and you don't even know most of the background behind decisions made.

Ane yes, I know already that everything I just mentioned will be dismissed as "excuses." It doesn't matter any longer what, why and how anything has been done, as the main objective seems to be bashing everything just for the sake of doing it.