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Changing the directions means that app developers cannot develop the same app for both iOS and Sailfish since they have to place important information that shouldn't be covered up by notifications, or shouldn't be interacted with in a way that could activate the notifications menu, on the bottom in iOS and on the top on Sailfish.
Is there any benefit to changing the directions notifications come from?
it will be interesting to see how this competes against the Chinese competitors in this arena. Just yesterday Gionee announced the E7 for about the same price. A phone that includes a camera sensor from a point and shoot. http://www.gsmarena.com/16mp_gionee_elife_e7_claims_to_be_th...
So this is an Android fork with UI improvements?
If you happen to have heard of the N900, it's the team who made that one. They founded their own company after Nokia sold its soul to MS.
>Jolla brings you the best of both worlds – super intuitive Sailfish OS apps and the latest Android™ apps. The recent article on OS/2 [1] makes me wonder whether such compatibility (which, as I understand, is full and not selective) is actually good for them. Either way, tough, I wish Jolla success; I'd like to see Sailfish OS [2] on an actual device. [1] See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6792010 . The short o…
So this is an Android fork with UI improvements?
It's a phone from a small finnish company with a new (as in not MS, Google or Apple) operating system, that happens to have an Android compatibility layer, so you can run native Sailfish apps and Android apps. If you happen to have heard of the N900, it's the team who made that one. They founded their own company after Nokia sold its soul to MS.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a phone from a small finnish company with a new (as in not MS, Google or Apple) operating system, that happens to have an Android compatibility layer, so you can run native Sailfish apps and Android apps. If you happen to have heard of the N900, it's the team who made that one. They founded their own company after Nokia sold its soul to MS.
Nokia had a soul? It was a corporation.
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>Jolla brings you the best of both worlds – super intuitive Sailfish OS apps and the latest Android™ apps. The recent article on OS/2 [1] makes me wonder whether such compatibility (which, as I understand, is full and not selective) is actually good for them. Either way, tough, I wish Jolla success; I'd like to see Sailfish OS [2] on an actual device. [1] See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6792010 . The short o…
The smartphone industry is way beyond that - people are making iOS and Android apps, and very little else.
The Peek and Pull features exists on the iPhone - but the directions are reversed. Changing the directions means that app developers cannot develop the same app for both iOS and Sailfish since they have to place important information that shouldn't be covered up by notifications, or shouldn't be interacted with in a way that could activate the notifications menu, on the bottom in iOS and on the top on Sailfish. Is th…