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Comment by ramon156

3 hours ago

> A successor to the iconic original Jolla Phone from 2013

does anyone own this 2013 version? why did it not crash the market?

Also, will my banking app be supported on sailfishOS?

I have it - Wayland, BTRFS, RPM and systemd on a phone - in 2013!

Why did it not set the wolrd on fire back then ? Ruthless monopoly building on both Google and Apple side IMHO.

It's a great success Jolla still exists and does its thing. :-)

  • >Ruthless monopoly building on both Google and Apple side IMHO.

    Microsoft spent a lot of money and resources trying to compete and failed.

    Android/Apple just started early enough and by 2012 it was too late as most consumers have decided. To enter this market you have to be truly unique or else you are just copying the competitor and why would users switch if they are happy enough?

    Is that really a monopoly if you had a third competitor come in and try?

Same reason why Linux is not crashing the desktop market?

(I have a Jolla 1 and a Jolla C sitting in a drawer, now I fully switched to Graphene OS.)