[Sailfish General] RumCoffee:
Why Sailfish might be a "GOOD" idea too...

The simple fact is I just bought a NOTE 2. First Samsung Device and aside from the S-pen, making a different way of interaction.

We have this to consider. As i have been readng how to 'setup' my NOTE 2 as it's on order and pending... I have come across

threads about how GOOGLE is trying to get 'us' the end users off of SD cards. Other Crap like that... Google has power now,

and they are acting so far like EVERY other US company that gets it. M$, Apple...

It's nice to 'have' something else to look at that is OPEN and someone noted something that is a concern to me. Customizable

look, and features. I myself don't like CRAP on my desktop or my HOME SCREENS... I just don't. When I run Linux, I go with no

icons on my desktop.

So this is so far from what I've seen a bit of a turn off but in the future because the system has to start somewhere... if it's really

open, one would hope such features could be expected. Either 3rd party or by the main OS makers.

There have been enough complaints here by users about devices without SD CARD access. About how Google is trying to cut

this off and how ni Samsung devices Samsung had to 'hack' around it to allow SD card access to apps that were used to getting

it.

I for one for simplicity don't want a stupid OS where all my personal CRAP PHOTOS etc are STUCK in the phone. Just for a simple

reason like that.

Another reason we should all hope for MORE OS's to be released is because lets let the DEVICE makers take something back!

Eventually it only takes one to WISE up... loosing money competing OS to OS or by trying to follow up when they have a good device but for example the ANDROID leader is SAMSUNG. I like that LG picked up WebOS SO they're gonna make Smart TV with it but all it takes is a little pebble to start the Landslide.

THese OEM's we want them to wise up and say... WAIT! There's stuff out there... we make the DEVICE and let them decide what they want on it. Isn't waht we all dream of? Cause then stupid crap like Samsungs Flash counter will be something made obsolete by trend.

Makes will possibly start trying to just concentrate on GOOD HARDWARE just like computers, and then maybe some company will really wise up and the only thing they'll contribute will be a device coming with some kind of AWsome MULTI-BOOT loader system ... :P Or at least if the devices are open someone can make one... haha.

Also about the Ubunty on mobiles thing... well, it's an interesting idea but seems like they are still not planning to get anywhere with it for a whole year? I wonder why...

Sailfish is using the WHOLE Linux... it's the same thing, but with a UI set for imbedded and small devices. SO all that needs to be done in the future is a step up to a whole desktop for bigger screen devices or if you dock your device to a large screen... so in other words...

Sailfish could have the same potential as Ubuntu...

I have personally never used Ubuntu and hope that with the option of sailfish what we may see is other Linux projects joining the trend. I mean really... it's all OPEN source. What actually bugs me the most as an end users is also the same problem that I see with some Linux projects.

Everyone reinventing the WHEEL trying to make the best this and taht and this is the real reason in some instances it's taking longer to do something that is lying around and could be modified and it's true, I don't speak with any experience in coding or programming but I think some who do know what is said is a bit true in some instances just like in some a total rewrite may be in order.

but if it's OPEN, then the parts are there.

So either way... it'll be good to see SAILFISH and other things. I'm sorry, but the whole TIZEN thing doesn't appeal to me pesonally. If it had more underlying structure other than the HTML 5, cause frankly, I am not real happy about every little thing on my system always

being connected to the internet in some way... though yes, I realize HTML 5 is just a way to create graphics but, remember these are companies we're dealing with here and they always have their own agenda.

Anyway... I'd like to see Sailfish vs Windoz OS, cause Micro$haft has not changed their ways and I don't expect to see them do any different than they have and their system will be similarly locked in ways but differently or in differently places as much as Apple's.

Android is open now but Google is acting weird and some competition and innovation can keep it open longer...

So, I'd love to see Salifsish fly or is that Swim... and of course they need to start somewhere and 90% of they users will be people who just want it to 'work' and that's where they need to go first. Us power users, etc in this forum, we're like the 10% or less now. Before

we were the people buying smartphones but when smartphones are now what the average user is getting their hands on?

Forget it... you bettre make something that they goo OOOH perty, and it's simple. OR you will be lost in the market. I also recall that

Sailfish is coming out here in the Asian market if I read taht right a couple month ago. I am an expat living in CHINA and believe me.

They want it simple and pretty, anything else... and it will fail. But once it hits this market, where a lot of stuff for Android is being made now

if it is accepted... then it will start having things made for it and if it can run Android apps, it's a true plus...

Depending on what hardware it comes out on, if it's able to use the simple apps I use in Android, it may be my next device to replace my daily users...

Obviously the NOTE 2 is going to be my KIND device and isn't exactly for 'daily' use in the way that I use my devices. ;)

Still, the more the merrier and frankly, a lot of OEM's will want to get off of being branded as ANDROID device makers or whatever if they want to sell.

Also it's all good that ANDY is merging back with main kernel, but so far... there is still NO REAL work you can do with Android despite this yet. I do mean, such as prepare a very good OFFICE DOCUMENT, Power Point presentation and so on that you would on a computer. Though I hear the Open Office to Android project is going... so one can but wait and hope.