Originally Posted by youmeego

what will happen to the home screen if there are more than 9 apps running in the background?

Originally Posted by Fawz

The back over thing sounds mildly promising, IF it has a powerful enough interface to the low-level parts of the main phone part.

Now to vent some steam, because I care about Jolla (or what they could be).

What *really* irks me is their seemingly main focus on how changing the back cover to another color and having the phone auto-read the contents of something saved on its flash memory (or equivalent) to change themes accordingly is "A revolution"(source jolla.com). A *revolution*. Ie. a game changer. Really? If it was just mentioned as a feature, I'd think "nice" and move on. But this just makes it seem like they have nothing else good to say about their phone but that you can change colors easily.

Really, it's just basic autorun capability for hot-plugable media! Right now they seem to mostly hype themselves around the awesome nature of "showing you're an individual" by being able to change the color theme of the phone and the color of the back plate. A color someone else chooses to make available to you, mind. A concept which will probably hamper real theming of the menus and sailfish overall since it's not in their interest to allow any Sailfish install to not have "that Sailfish look(tm)" (see what happened with Gnome 3 in that regard).

All this bigging up of trivial theming and claiming it will revolutionize everything and not even mentioning what capabilities the back cover really holds nor mentioning any real specs feels disingenous and fake.

Color me a sad panda

Originally Posted by igguk1

I knew I was going to get some beating when I wrote about the true openness Sailfish and more so here.

Look in all I am very happy this is happening now and I am looking forward for them to succeed, as I see it this can only benefit people who is favoring the open-source movement. I like also how they are promoting Qt as for development toolkit
I am just a bit worried as to why the Jolla team does not openly discuss what are their future plans for open-sourcing the closed parts… the UX and the drivers, I understand they might not be able to do so now because being a small company on a Shark territory they might lose some competitive advantage, but still they could openly discuss if they plan to do so at some point in the future.
Would everybody here for instance be happy knowing that the closed parts will remain like so forever? I know my answer.

When I said Android is more open than Sailfish now is because it is, heck even somebody skilled enough could cook their own ROM, all is available there and for instance Ubuntu people are taking advantage of it, and yes you can have a terminal on it if you wish don’t forget it’s based still on a linux core , please don’t tell me about Google evil company I know about it don’t like it either… but is not the matter we are discussing here.

That’s all that I wanted to say and I know that while I will get again a beating here, I am voicing also some concerns that maybe a small part of this forums has.
As I don’t want to start a war here about this, this will be my last comment on it I will just continue to read the forums and Jolla news and probably will get the phone when released.

I said in the post before that the hardware does not appeal to me (that was bound to happen with the resources they have) but I forgot to add that I like very much what I see about the Os's and that if well executed which is a very big If "the Other half" idea may be the disrupting thing Elop was chasing years ago...