Sailfish – a real alternative to iPhone and Android?

The UI is pathetic. Why are people so bent on such complex gestures? Scroll up for this, scroll down for that, two finger slide up for another thing. Seriously?

xemacs has a cult following and so will sailfish. But you know how xemacs will do in the "market".

I don't think the prize for the 3rd place has been given out yet. Possible contenders are BlackBerry, Bada, and WP. Symbian still sells ok-ish, but is clearly a dead end. And then there are some new players including Tizen, Sailfish, and Firefox OS.

Personally, I'd like to see a properly open alternative do well. Firefox OS would be the best for the web, and Sailfish for Linux in general.

That demo video is terrible. If it really has anything new in it's UI, that guy failed miserably at demonstrating it. Changing the background/ambience is one of the pillars of a "more personal user experience", really?

I'd like to understand why this Quartz guy is jizzing all over this company, but the article doesn't help either.

Actually I'd like it if I could respond to an incoming message over whatever app is running right now, without switching away. This would be useful for videos, games without a proper pause state saving, almost any application really.

There's also the problem that comes up every other week for me: the phone number I want to call is in a picture / not selectable / selecting is completely broken due to some onmouseover handler. It still happens from time to time and I really wish I had an ability to see both apps (the one with the information and the dialer) at the same time.

Video over other things seems less useful though...

So yes, I'd like to see a little bit easier multitasking because not all apps/pages are properly taking advantage of the UI possibilities yet. And I'm talking about simple things like href=tel:...

Please don't call Samsung gimmicks "Android". Nothing Samsung has ever shoehorned into Android has been useful.

And efficient multi-tasking _can_ be very nice. For example, Android has a dedicated app-switching button. One tap shows you a list of your last-used apps, about 5 visible without scrolling. It makes it insanely fast to swap between apps. On iOS you have to double tap a physical button. If not that, then you can tap it once and select your next app from the home screen. The problem now is that because that one button has been overloaded, it always has to wait and make sure there's no second tap coming before it can take you to the springboard. That small delay is pretty annoying once you get used to Android, which isn't limited to one button.