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

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

2015-07-16 Thread Peter
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 support Jolla. And I buy at a Jolla shop. Not somewhere els

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

2015-07-16 Thread Ville Määttä
I don't see recent news as anything particularly positive. It could be the turning point of the company and with it, Sailfish OS. Splitting a company is rarely done for any other reason than to get rid of something you do not want. And Jolla is splitting off devices. On 11.07.15 14:03, Bob Summer

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

2015-07-15 Thread Bob Summerwill
It's an Indian partner! Brilliant news. http://m.gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/intex-to-unveil-first-smartphone-with-sailfish-os-20-at-mwc-shanghai-715542 On Jul 11, 2015 7:03 AM, "Bob Summerwill" wrote: > I guess nobody knows what to think because we just don't have enough > information to mak

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

2015-07-11 Thread Bob Summerwill
I guess nobody knows what to think because we just don't have enough information to make a judgement. MWC Shanghai is 15-17 July, so Wed to Fri of the coming week. See http://www.mwcshanghai.com/ My hope would be that Jolla announce a new Chinese partner who have licensed Sailfish 2.0 to bring i

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

2015-07-08 Thread itviewer
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