It’s a really awesome OS, the UI is one of the slickest and most intuitive gesture based UIs I’ve ever used. But it’s so limited for apps etc. Damn shame, because I enjoyed every minute using it on my Xperia.
Wow, what will they think of next!? A subscription for air? For using my own toilet? I hope this company dies quickly…
Seems a hard sell to go subscription on such a niche platform. I wish anyone luck that could challenge the Apple/Android duopoly though.
I haven’t looked into it. But I suspect that if Linux phones can get Kotlin to run natively, we’ll start seeing some of the apps from F-Droid ported over and that will be the turning point.
I had a Jolla smart phone, it was pretty great but it also quickly became apparent that the company had no real intention to make Sailfish the Android-compatible, open and privacy-friendly OS I was hoping it’d be. Selling licenses to customers to put the OS on third party hardware really killed it for me.
Kinda surprised they are still around, but I guess knowing the right magical words to whisper to investors is a good enough business strategy. They’ve done it with blockchain, now it’s AI.
Haha byeee
Jolla says the phone will sell for €299 (including a 1-year subscription license for Sailfish OS)
Emphasis mine. Mate, just what are you doing? A subscription license of a mobile OS? Wat? They could be working together with Purism, Pine64, PostMarketOS and other software+hardware groups trying to make linux phones popular, but instead they are making some proprietary stuff in their corner. Is it really that difficult to work with other people or what’s going on?
Wow, what will they think of next!? A subscription for air? For using my own toilet? I hope this company dies quickly…
Watching Microsoft begging people to subscribe to the hardware they bought and thinking it is a good idea.
Yeah nope, Jolla still has some closed source parts, then I’d rather monthly fund a project truly open source, like Mobian or Droidian, and maybe with wider target devices horizons than Sony Experia devices only.
Yeah nope, Jolla still has some closed source parts, then I’d rather monthly fund a project truly open source, like Mobian or Droidian, and maybe with wider target devices horizons than Sony Experia devices only.
Jolla is still going?
