Comments on: 5 Reasons Why #SailfishOS 2.0 Should Worry Apple, Google And Microsoft

By: TimS

TimS — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:28:12 +0000

I was (and always have been) “Apple” based. I too ventured into Jolla to discover something new. Unfortunately, I’m now firmly back with Apple because everything “just works” as it should & when it should. Jolla was a brave attempt but it (hardware and OS) was released too soon and with limited specs and apps. Not supposed to be an objective criticism of Jolla but it’s not “for me”.

By: 4yk4a

4yk4a — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:07:39 +0000

To the hell with “button free”! Games make half the sales and touch screen is a huge limitation for almost every type of gameplay. Moreover I miss the days I had hardware answer and cancel buttons because now I have to look at the screen to be sure I actually started talking. Most disgusting idea apple brought to the world and somehow everyone’s buying it :(

By: Kea

Kea — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 10:09:58 +0000

I have always had Apple products, because they are reliable, easy to use, and because they have the best designers, the best and most beautiful apps, games, etc. My phone 3GS never crashed in 5 years and it still works. I use it as an ipod and satnav now, for recently I have chosen Jolla. Apple’s system is too closed, apart, and the new design is rigid and dull. I love the different app icons of Jolla and I love the gesture system. And I love my privacy, which is in better hands with a European company than with an American of Russian (or…) because of European law (except the UK). Android never was for me a serious option: ugly and spyware.
The side effect of open source can be: more crap. I don’t know how Jolla will control this, but I hope Jolla can become the third dog that runs away with the bone which the other two dogs are fighting for.

By: ewedel

ewedel — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 03:34:36 +0000

Open source is of course a great idea. But allowing unfettered access to the innards of a connected consumer device like this is very much a double-edged sword: can you say “malware”? I knew you could.

Of course at this point in Jolla’s lifecycle users are presumably a bit more sophisticated and the target market size for malware authors much smaller. But as Jolla’s installed base grows, some sort of checks on phone access will likely become necessary. Hopefully Jolla can find a graceful way to implement them with minimal impact on device use.

By: wisdomlight

wisdomlight — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:31:58 +0000

I hope jolla becomes big but not too big…still jolla has to make its user experience much better. Without increasing the number of quality native apps that will make the jolla phone a proper work horse with an unlike jolla experience it is difficult for me to see a reason for jolla’s existence. After all if I need jolla to run android apps, I might as well buy android. No?

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