alt Hacker NewsSailfishOS and the Jolla One were good (awesome usability) But the integration of Android was a horribly failure. It is like WINE, half working applications preventing native ports of quality. I left the boat.
After that Jolla failed with the tablet. Then they didn’t deliver a successor device for Jolla One and provided SailfishOS only as aftermarket OS. You remember the Android problem from above? The hardware of others, without official support? That is calling for problems.
And to make everything worse Jolla started a cooperation with Russia in 2015. According to Wikipedia they quit it in 2021.
Hint about compatibility and APIs
Never try to be compatible to an environment which doesn’t want to maintain interoperability with you.
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Does anyone know if Jolla ever published the full source-code? The promised back in 2013.
Proton is based on Wine and is a major factor behind the success of Steamdeck and SteamOS.
Also Sailfish OS Android emulation is quite good, good or even the best one I used on the Android emulation front.
The android support improved a lot such that all the apps I used worked there.
Funny. This is the opposite of what https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/ states :D
And there's a lot going on with Proton and the Steam Deck, so I don't think this is a valid argument.