Jolla Sailfish pitches a "European phone" for users wary of Google and Apple

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  • it uses a downstream Android kernel
  • it does not use a mainline kernel
  • the Android kernel creates dependencies and makes it difficult to keep up to date for more than a couple years
  • their AppSuport is literally Android in a container with some proprietary parts
  • their apps are scarce as they need to be built for the OS (no Flatpak or any other support for the existing mobile Linux software)
  • the UI and some other components are proprietary

I believe those points make clear why I see more of a future in projects like Mobian, postmarketOS, Fedora Pocketblue.


Priced at €649, the Jolla Phone is not intended for the mass market, and company leadership has acknowledged that it will remain a niche product.


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