Comment by embedding-shape
1 day ago
The Finns, as always, continue to develop mobile phones, Jolla is back from the dead and supposedly starts shipping sometime in 2026 with a new iteration on the hardware and the OS, time will tell if it'll have any impact.
Might not be 100% Europe-made from the get go, but good ideas and executions often start with small steps and iterate rather than having something groundbreaking out of the gate.
I'm not convinced that replacing one proprietary OS with another is the solution.
That said, I won't deny that Jolla is much more trustworthy than Google or Apple.
> I'm not convinced that replacing one proprietary OS with another is the solution.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm not super familiar with Jolla's/Sailfish's architecture, but isn't most of the OS actually FOSS, while there is a thin proprietary compatibility layer, and that's about it? Was some months ago I last read about it so could be misremembering, but seems like a good first step at the very least.
I think it is a lot more, as far as I understand, most of the UI is proprietary:
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-os-clarifying-claims...
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-os-clarifying-claims...
> I'm not convinced that replacing one proprietary OS with another is the solution.
Consumer don't care if the OS is proprietary, as long as it works and there is a responsible party they can trust to serve them the offering.
> Consumer don't care if the OS is proprietary, as long as it works
I agree entirely (and they also don't even care if there's a trustable party who they can trust, just look at how many people happily use Google).
And this is exactly the mentality that's gotten us where we are. Consumers don't care about these things, and then end up lock into vendor ecosystems like the one op is describing here.