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Sailfish OS experience [...] launc[h]er application which can be used to simulate the Sailfish OS experience on Android devices What's the point for a custo

by frik 13y ago

Sailfish OS experience [...] launc[h]er application which can be used to simulate the Sailfish OS experience on Android devices What's the point for a custom launcher? And on Wikipedia: On 16 September 2013, Jolla has announced that its Sailfish OS is now compatible with Android applications and hardware. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS It would help a lot if Sailfish OS/Tizen would support Android device drivers, all of them are Linux after all, and the major issue are closed source device drivers that prevent more wide spread adoption...

rjzzleep 13y ago
that's not how it works. android device drivers aren't even compatible through android releases. i'm talking 4.0-4.1 4.1-4.2 etc. they could be if we would have access to the binary blobs they link against, but we don't. asking for binary compatibility in device drivers across linux distributions is not really a trivial think to ask for.
- zanny 13y ago
  Somehow a lot of core libraries manage to be major version binary compatible, through things like pimpl. I don't see why device drivers couldn't as well, I think it is a sound compromise.
pekk 13y ago
They are showing off work (to Android users) to generate interest in their own products, to hopefully help sell those down the line. Which is exactly what they should be doing. The major issue preventing adoption is not anything about drivers. That's silly. People buy phones with the relevant drivers included. Purchases drive adoption. The major issue is they aren't selling a lot of phones. Giving top priority to people who want to put arbitrary OSes on arbitrary hardware is not going to build viable business. Jolla should focus on selling their phones. They will need to do that successfully in order for us to possibly see anything new or useful come out of Sailfish, let alone make any progress against the boring, limiting "iPhone and Android forever" status quo.

by frik 13y ago

rjzzleep 13y ago

that's not how it works. android device drivers aren't even compatible through android releases. i'm talking 4.0-4.1 4.1-4.2 etc. they could be if we would have access to the binary blobs they link against, but we don't. asking for binary compatibility in device drivers across linux distributions is not really a trivial think to ask for.

zanny 13y ago
Somehow a lot of core libraries manage to be major version binary compatible, through things like pimpl. I don't see why device drivers couldn't as well, I think it is a sound compromise.

pekk 13y ago

They are showing off work (to Android users) to generate interest in their own products, to hopefully help sell those down the line. Which is exactly what they should be doing. The major issue preventing adoption is not anything about drivers. That's silly. People buy phones with the relevant drivers included. Purchases drive adoption. The major issue is they aren't selling a lot of phones. Giving top priority to people who want to put arbitrary OSes on arbitrary hardware is not going to build viable business. Jolla should focus on selling their phones. They will need to do that successfully in order for us to possibly see anything new or useful come out of Sailfish, let alone make any progress against the boring, limiting "iPhone and Android forever" status quo.