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Post by stiray »

mariusor wrote: post #157
stiray wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can support passtrough for bluetooth and NFC. It is not something they need to invent themself. I cant emphasize enought how this feature is of most importance for my daily life. At 48, I am using either the bicycle or public transport for my daily commute (for 30+ years!). I can workaround it by buying a NFC card each month but very typically it is not available without considerate walk time. Not to mention ban…

As far as I'm aware there's a Patchmanager patch for enabling bluetooth in the Android subsystem. But I don't really understand your vehemence against me, or them for that matter.

I am on Graphene OS now and they will really need to think of something revolutionary to get me back. No, nice GUI is not enough for all the years I have lost, desperately trying to adapt. Now, think of the normal, everyday user, not prepared to even buy a specific phone release for Sailfish. And this is how they will lose users. I consider this as constructive criticism from my side.

Believe me, I am in front row, for wanting the linux to succeed against bastardized OS as android is. But the wrong decisions are just wrong decisions, there is no excuse to it.

Re: Jolla Phone Pre-Order

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Post by 0rzech »

kogepathic wrote: post #32

Hard no on giving Jolla a cent. Jolla rug-pulled [1] people who crowd-funded [2] their tablet in 2014. Jolla used the crowd-funding campaign to butter up VCs for their next funding round [3] and then decided the Asian LLC handling the crowdfunding would go bankrupt, leaving backers with no tablets and most with no refund. [4] The real kicker was that the tablets were ALREADY manufactured by their ODM, Jolla just neve…

AFAIR, I got refunded the whole tablet price in the end - I think half the price immediately, and the other half a few years later. It doesn't mean others were refunded too, of course. It was long time ago, though, so I may have mixed something up.

Re: Jolla Phone Pre-Order

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Post by nebula8804 »

m4rtink wrote: post #65
ramon156 wrote: post #62

> A successor to the iconic original Jolla Phone from 2013 does anyone own this 2013 version? why did it not crash the market? Also, will my banking app be supported on sailfishOS?

I have it - Wayland, BTRFS, RPM and systemd on a phone - in 2013! Why did it not set the wolrd on fire back then ? Ruthless monopoly building on both Google and Apple side IMHO. It's a great success Jolla still exists and does its thing. :-)

>Ruthless monopoly building on both Google and Apple side IMHO.

Microsoft spent a lot of money and resources trying to compete and failed.

Android/Apple just started early enough and by 2012 it was too late as most consumers have decided. To enter this market you have to be truly unique or else you are just copying the competitor and why would users switch if they are happy enough?

Is that really a monopoly if you had a third competitor come in and try?

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Post by burningChrome »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #126
SoftTalker wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> colour accuracy, frame-rate Absolutely irrelevant for what I do with a phone, and I'd wager that 90% of users would not notice the difference.

I had iPhone 12 Mini and then 14 and now 17. I can't practically tell the difference except for battery life, weight, and size.

It will be pretty imperceivable when you stay within the same ecosystem. If you went from your 17 and then went to a mid tier phone like a Samsung A71, you would notice a difference.

Display is something I for sure started paying attention to when I was jumping back and forth between Android and Apple when I went from my OnePlus to Apple and then to Samsung noticed differences.

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Post by LostMyWords »

nsoqm wrote: post #35
fodmap wrote: post #26

Don't confuse Jolla https://jolla.com/ with Volla https://volla.online/en/index.php Both are European companys with a great privacy drive.

Nobody has confused Jolla with Volla, mostly because nobody has ever heard of Volla.

I actually confused them many times, when I started researching Android alternatives and Linux phones. Now I learnt :)

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Post by poetaster »

Yipee! Ok, I can't afford more hardware, but it's my favourite mobile os and I develop/maintain apps for it, so I'm happy to see the amount of effort Jolla has put in in the last 2 years to stay relevant and up their game!
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