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I own a Jolla, I currenty use it as my primary phone and the real game-changer here may be that it actually runs Android apps without any signficant problems (s
by xilaworp 13y ago
I own a Jolla, I currenty use it as my primary phone and the real game-changer here may be that it actually runs Android apps without any signficant problems (so far :-)) even at this early stage (Angry Birds and Skype in my case, which seems me like quite challenging apps to emulate, Skype video calls, for example works).
For me this seems to invalidate the ecosystem concept underlying for example the Nokia switch to Microsoft and making Jolla and other smaller phone makers' chances of success a lot bigger.
- jenniferk 13y agoDoesn't that ensure that OEMs can't ship it just like Acer was banned from making Aliyun phones? Also, compatibility will ensure that almost no one will bother to make Sailfish apps and that Sailfish is in an eternal race to keep replicating all the functionality that is being pushed into the closed Play Services at an increasing pace.
- lafar6502 13y agoYeah, but why running Android apps is such a game changer? After all, most Android phones can run Android apps too... Why would anyone want to have Jolla and not Android?
- caprad 13y agoI suggest that most Android phones don't run Android apps without significant problems, since most Android phones are cheap devices with bad screens, low memory and slow processors. And most developers instead have the latest and greatest. Most Android phones are not Samsung 4 or HTC one.
- Brakenshire 13y agoThere's a significant value in being able to use a phone with a sense of freedom from being watched by a company like Google. To fully use an Android handset, you have to keep Google updated on your location, contacts, calendar, and email, and give them your credit card details. This information is much more sensitive because you are giving it to a company which can combine it with other sources of information.
- xilaworp 13y agoThe usefulness and game-changing property of the compatibility to me is that you can buy a phone from a small startup with its own operating system and UI and still have access to applications while you wait fot the number of phones to grow and for Skype et. al to port their stuff to the native environment. Without that you wouldn't necessary buy the phone and the conpany would have a much harder time to succeeed, Also it is good to have a way to run more exotic apps that it does not make sense to port to a less mainstream environment. I'm Finnish and has used Nokia Communicators since the 90s and my previous phones was an N9 and a N900 so the main attraction is the native environment as a continuation of Mameo/Meego and the company itself. Thankfully there is still some Finnish companies who seems to understand how to apply 'Management by perkele' :-)
- sirkneeland 13y agoPerkele is a word that does not get used enough on HN :)
- Zigurd 13y agoConsidering I still own a lot of shares in a company that makes Android compatibility environments for non-Android platforms, I hope that's true. In general, I think the Jolla team has been pragmatic. They have not relied exclusively on any one approach to delivering mobile apps, and they have a native app environment in addition to their Android compatibility