I ran sailfish on my 1+1 back in the day for a while. It was a nice OS but the app ecosystem was just horrible and their android compatibility just never worked right for me.
I don’t think anything but the Zenphone devices ever officially supported… anything. These days, it seems like there are a bunch of open source alternatives but for any decent Android support you need to buy the OS.
It’s quite sad, I really like the look and feel of Sailfish and how integrated everything is. Almost nobody makes apps for it, of course (except for porting Linux applications), but I’d love to see the parallel universe where it took off and had official apps for the most important services.
Yeah, I feel the same about Firefox OS, Ubuntu mobile, Web OS, and Meego. I wish we had a third option at least, that was a little more viable for people that have a handful of apps for widgets and stuff.
At this point I think that any real contender is going to have to bake android compatibility in to hope to make a dent in the market at all. Too many normal people expect to be able to use their phone to control some gadgets they have bought, smart stuff and iot gear. Without rewriting all the various apps to control those gadgets people are going to be hesitant to try anything else going forward IMHO.
I ran sailfish on my 1+1 back in the day for a while. It was a nice OS but the app ecosystem was just horrible and their android compatibility just never worked right for me.
I don’t think anything but the Zenphone devices ever officially supported… anything. These days, it seems like there are a bunch of open source alternatives but for any decent Android support you need to buy the OS.
It’s quite sad, I really like the look and feel of Sailfish and how integrated everything is. Almost nobody makes apps for it, of course (except for porting Linux applications), but I’d love to see the parallel universe where it took off and had official apps for the most important services.
Yeah, I feel the same about Firefox OS, Ubuntu mobile, Web OS, and Meego. I wish we had a third option at least, that was a little more viable for people that have a handful of apps for widgets and stuff. At this point I think that any real contender is going to have to bake android compatibility in to hope to make a dent in the market at all. Too many normal people expect to be able to use their phone to control some gadgets they have bought, smart stuff and iot gear. Without rewriting all the various apps to control those gadgets people are going to be hesitant to try anything else going forward IMHO.