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	pichlo	2016-03-09 , 15:25
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Originally Posted by gerbick

Personally, I think that the gestures in Jolla, and by an extension Harmattan, made a stylus quite useless. There's quite a few use cases where a stylus would make things awkward.

"Awkward" is not the word I would have chosen. "Unnecessary", perhaps?

That's how I see SFOS: a crutch to compensate for the lack of proper input methods, such as a HW keyboard and a precision pointing device, like a mouse or a stylus. I must say it does a damn good job compensating but if you have those, you do not need SFOS. You may as well use a real OS.

I think that in 2016, considering the N900 a "mobile computer" is quite apt; but I still would say it's a rather lacking mobile computer for some rather practical things yet quite fantastic for stuff that makes this forum happy.

I, OTOH, have found both Jolla and SFOS severely lacking in pretty much every aspect except a more powerful CPU. Moving from N900 to Jolla feels like moving from an old Mercedes to a new Ford Fiesta. It may be new, but it does not have air-conditioning, power steering, ABS, a dashboard clock, electric windows, a CD player...

But yeah, this is OT in this thread. Sorry.

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