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2016-01-18
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In Jolla's case, they had native drivers for NovaThor but after ST-Ericsson decied to split and NovaThor SoC was cancelled, they were left without native drivers. So they created libhybris so they can use Android drivers. But it dictated several other things, which forced the rewrite and some other changes (Qt version, Wayland etc).
But of course, you in your infinite wisdom would have avoided that. You just weren't there to tell them.
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2016-01-18
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2016-01-18
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How about Jolla learning from history? They are a living proof of the old adage, "Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it."
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2016-01-18
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2016-01-18
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If you need to rewrite the UI every time you change the drivers, you are doing it terribly, horribly wrong.
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2016-01-18
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Every time you change the platform (like X to Wayland) and application framework (Qt4 -> Qt5), there are things you need to rewrite, no matter how good your software architecture is. If new driver doesn't work with your old stuff, you will need to rewrite. It's really as simple as that.
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2016-01-19
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Again why they had to do the salfish OS 2 which is mostly adaptation to screen size.
Especially when as you mentioned maemo and meego did it before and they should know better if they came from maemo and meego. Basically you should learn from mistake, don't you?
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2016-01-19
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2016-01-19
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And fourth, you are right, changing the platform may involve having to rewrite some code. It is how much of it needs rewriting that is the true measure of how well it was designed.
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