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Didn't it live on as SailfishOS and Jolla, before dying for lack of customers? I too had an N9, and while I wouldn't describe it as amazing, it was reasonably
by pengaru 3y ago
Didn't it live on as SailfishOS and Jolla, before dying for lack of customers?
I too had an N9, and while I wouldn't describe it as amazing, it was reasonably good for the time and probably the best we've ever had in terms of a functional multitouch "linux phone".
IMO what killed it was the closed off nature of Harmattan and the lack of support from Nokia in encouraging hacking the OS. No reproducible firmware, no trivial flashing of community builds standing on the shoulders of what Nokia shipped on the phone. We'd be in a very different place today had the N9 been where the PinePhone is in terms of ability to easily derive and swap out distros, and the vibrant community this enables.
- bzzzt 3y agoI had the predecessor (N900) at the time, but I don't think the OSS community would have helped. Lots of effort was directed to typical 'hacker' uses of the phone, not stuff your regular 'end user' would need. It was fun to see a full port of OpenOffice on the thing but it needed a full minute to start and was useless on the small screen. Also, most end users don't know what to do with the terminal ;) While I think they improved a lot with the N9 Nokia was already severely outclassed by Apple, followed by Google by then. Directly stating the N9 line was unsupported at release time was the nail in the coffin.
- Apocryphon 3y agoSailfish is still around, albeit very barely