Re: [SailfishDevel] How do you evaluate the recent events of jolla

2015-07-17 Thread Bob Summerwill
Thanks for the link, Chris. I will check that out. I love emulators. My most exotic hardware purchase was a https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAM_Coup%C3%A9, possibly the most powerful ever 8-bit computer. But way too late. 16-bit and 32-bit machines already existed and were surging in populari

Re: [SailfishDevel] How do you evaluate the recent events of jolla

2015-07-17 Thread Chris Walker
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:23:37 -0400 Bob Summerwill wrote: > Well said, Chris! > > Like everybody else British of a certain age, I cut my teeth on a BBC > Model B. A close friend of mine got the very expensive Archimedes ( > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes) which was the first >

Re: [SailfishDevel] How do you evaluate the recent events of jolla

2015-07-17 Thread Bob Summerwill
Well said, Chris! Like everybody else British of a certain age, I cut my teeth on a BBC Model B. A close friend of mine got the very expensive Archimedes ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes) which was the first ever ARM computer, but that was always well out of reach financially fo

Re: [SailfishDevel] How do you evaluate the recent events of jolla

2015-07-17 Thread Ville Määttä
On 17.07.15 10:53, Chris Walker wrote: > The reason they changed the name is that they knew that more companies > would buy their software designs if it weren't tied to a hardware > company. Yes, there are some such examples and one would hope Jolla to be one more. > So while the phone hardware s

Re: [SailfishDevel] How do you evaluate the recent events of jolla

2015-07-17 Thread Chris Walker
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:28:06 +0200 Peter wrote: > I do not see the benefit of Sailfish without the Jolla Phone. I > rather buy the Fair Phone next then this Indian vendor thingy. > I am still waiting that Jolla offers something in their shop for the > other half. > Sounds stupid, but I want to s