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	nthn	2016-06-11 , 18:45
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Originally Posted by bluefoot

There's no reason not to use almost entirely gestures now, as @mscion hinted at, if you're happy to root your phone (usually a simple process). The gesture options are also far more comprehensive and configurable in Android than we've ever had access to in 3 years of 'development' of Sailfish, as a supposedly gesture based OS.

- rooting your phone is only a simple process if you own a very expensive one, which are always the most popular, because nobody bothers hacking around on cheap phones nobody owns
- even then calling it 'a simple process' severely overestimates the technological knowledge of the general population
- the gesture options are not configurable in Android, they're configurable in a proprietary third party application which requires root access and has your permission to connect to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and USB (definitely not a recipe for eventual but certain disaster), you know, like patchmanager, which isn't proprietary and doesn't make any external connections
- I didn't know 'gesture-based OS' meant 'an OS of which it is possible to configure all gestures', but please do inform me how to configure the location/function of the buttons in Android considering it is a 'button-based OS'

Originally Posted by aegis

Simple. The OSS market is not worth the effort. Haven't we learnt that by now?

Surely it can't be that hard to dump the source code, even completely undocumented. What is there to lose? But I guess then I would be complaining about the lack of documentation.

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