SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
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Re: SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
#2That still exists? When I first heard of it many many years ago I had hopes for it. Never heard of it again. I see it is still on Qt5.
Re: SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
#3That still exists? When I first heard of it many many years ago I had hopes for it. Never heard of it again. I see it is still on Qt5.
Yes, they've even come out with a phone, but it's only available in Europe[0]
[0] https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-community-phone
Re: SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
#4That still exists? When I first heard of it many many years ago I had hopes for it. Never heard of it again. I see it is still on Qt5.
Yes, they've even come out with a phone, but it's only available in Europe[0] [0] https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-community-phone
Videos on that page have more information than the post's link.
Re: SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
#5there's an easy roadmap to make this popular.
make it so that I can dock it and use it as a full fat OS on a desktop. If they wanna market this as an open phone, they need to make it first class as a primary computing device. so far only samsung is willing to enter this territory with a glorified chromebook.
if I could install the rust toolchain and vscode on it and use it in a customizable desktop environemnt by plugging it into a USBC monitor, you bet I'd buy it. Id happily pay 1-2k+ euros for it.
Sadly as is, it functionally does less than my locked down iphone so whats the point?
Re: SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
#6As cool as this is there won't be an European alternative as long as all the apps you'd want to use on a smartphone require either Google Play or the Apple App store.
Re: SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
#7As cool as this is there won't be an European alternative as long as all the apps you'd want to use on a smartphone require either Google Play or the Apple App store.
it does run some sort of Android emulation layer
Re: SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
#8They're about to make a new phone:
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/next-gen-jolla-phone/23882
Re: SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
#9As cool as this is there won't be an European alternative as long as all the apps you'd want to use on a smartphone require either Google Play or the Apple App store.
It runs Android apps. Presumably, it has access to the Play store in some capacity, or a viable alternative.
Re: SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
#10there's an easy roadmap to make this popular. make it so that I can dock it and use it as a full fat OS on a desktop. If they wanna market this as an open phone, they need to make it first class as a primary computing device. so far only samsung is willing to enter this territory with a glorified chromebook. if I could install the rust toolchain and vscode on it and use it in a customizable desktop environemnt by plu…
That would be nice, plug in usb-c to a display and keyboard.
But there's another way, can't someone implement their own implementation of the core google services apis and then you can just load a regular app off the app store and run it? Google would absolutely want to block this as their control and monopoly depends on it. But it shouldn't be against the law.
It's obvious, so it means someone must have tried and it was not reasonably possible.