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Yeah... new mobile platform is a really hard thing to do - and without a designer (whom they clearly don't have), it's impossible. Nobody will use this.

joshuapants 11y ago
Let's be honest, even if they did have a talented team of designers nobody would use this.
- RivieraKid 11y ago
  Probably.
- shadeslayer 11y ago
  >Let's be honest, even if they did have a talented team of designers nobody would use this. Why?
  - RivieraKid 11y ago
    Because it has very few advantages over it's competitors and tons of drawbacks.
    - zanny 11y ago
      It will run apps from every major mobile OS except iOS, and it will be completely free. It will be able to do "convergence" desktops before even Ubuntu Touch because its running an identical software stack to Kubuntu, you just need to switch the running shell. What drawbacks, again?
  - joshuapants 11y ago
    Windows Phone has a talented team of designers, an innovative and easy to use UI, and backing from a major corporation with practically unlimited funds. It also has a tiny sliver of market share. Jolla has great designers, compatibility with Android apps, and killer hardware. Their marketshare is even smaller. Realistically, right now Android and iOS have all the mindshare and there is not a chance in hell that a me-too mobile OS is going to get any meaningful traction.
jbk 11y ago
Why are you so negative? Why do you say they don't have a designer? Did you ask? This is a technology preview, and for a new development platform, it's quite nice already.
- RivieraKid 11y ago
  The interface looks as if it was designed by a programmer. I would be really surprised if a professional designer designed it.
- Qwertious 11y ago
  As a technology preview, it sucks. Not many technical details at all. So it's a full stack, and you can run apps from a variety of (Qt-based) sources on it. It also has a few phrases like ENJOY NEW USER EXPERIENCE ADAPTABLE USER INTERFACE Focus on mobile devices. FREE OS FOR YOUR PHONE Uhh, okay? Oh, and the video shows that the phone is basically an Android clone. Great. I can't talk about the other person, but if I'm being negative it's because this has a really hype-ey 6-minute trailer advertising nothing of interest. Rule of thumb: Your trailer should never be more than two minutes, because otherwise it's probably really damn slow, and frankly a minute is pushing it.
  - wvh 11y ago
    This is not a marketing video. It mostly shows how Qt apps work with little or no modification, and that it is possible to use existing software with minimal adaptation. I think it is interesting because if a few people can make a usable prototype with some effort, there is hope that some more people and effort can actually produce a reasonably nice open-source mobile system to build on; that a phone running on open-source software is not an impossible or far-fetched idea.

joshuapants 11y ago

Let's be honest, even if they did have a talented team of designers nobody would use this.

RivieraKid 11y ago
Probably.
shadeslayer 11y ago
>Let's be honest, even if they did have a talented team of designers nobody would use this. Why?
- RivieraKid 11y ago
  Because it has very few advantages over it's competitors and tons of drawbacks.
  - zanny 11y ago
    It will run apps from every major mobile OS except iOS, and it will be completely free. It will be able to do "convergence" desktops before even Ubuntu Touch because its running an identical software stack to Kubuntu, you just need to switch the running shell. What drawbacks, again?
- joshuapants 11y ago
  Windows Phone has a talented team of designers, an innovative and easy to use UI, and backing from a major corporation with practically unlimited funds. It also has a tiny sliver of market share. Jolla has great designers, compatibility with Android apps, and killer hardware. Their marketshare is even smaller. Realistically, right now Android and iOS have all the mindshare and there is not a chance in hell that a me-too mobile OS is going to get any meaningful traction.

jbk 11y ago

Why are you so negative? Why do you say they don't have a designer? Did you ask? This is a technology preview, and for a new development platform, it's quite nice already.

RivieraKid 11y ago
The interface looks as if it was designed by a programmer. I would be really surprised if a professional designer designed it.
Qwertious 11y ago
As a technology preview, it sucks. Not many technical details at all. So it's a full stack, and you can run apps from a variety of (Qt-based) sources on it. It also has a few phrases like ENJOY NEW USER EXPERIENCE ADAPTABLE USER INTERFACE Focus on mobile devices. FREE OS FOR YOUR PHONE Uhh, okay? Oh, and the video shows that the phone is basically an Android clone. Great. I can't talk about the other person, but if I'm being negative it's because this has a really hype-ey 6-minute trailer advertising nothing of interest. Rule of thumb: Your trailer should never be more than two minutes, because otherwise it's probably really damn slow, and frankly a minute is pushing it.
- wvh 11y ago
  This is not a marketing video. It mostly shows how Qt apps work with little or no modification, and that it is possible to use existing software with minimal adaptation. I think it is interesting because if a few people can make a usable prototype with some effort, there is hope that some more people and effort can actually produce a reasonably nice open-source mobile system to build on; that a phone running on open-source software is not an impossible or far-fetched idea.