Emphasising the exclusiveness of Sailfish implicates that investors, necessary to make it grow and prosper, will not be interested in it. The EU has funding programs, but it will not grant funding to a select group that wants to stay exclusive.
Not all ‘geeks’ here use Sailfish as their daily driver. I did and I still do. Jolla 1, Xperia X, XA2, XA2 plus and the 10 III. For navigating I use my old ipad cellular (without sim, offline) and app MagicEarth that has no tracking. With Jolla 1 I used Here. Worked fine.
In my database I store links to approximately 150 critical articles about tech. I have read Shoshana Zuboff’s ‘The Age about Surveillance Capitalism’, books by Yuval Harari, parts of a book written by Nick Bostrøm, etc. I have seen the video ‘A Good American’ on Vimeo. Recommended! I have no Google account. My two paid mail accounts are from privacy friendly companies, no Whatsapp, etc.
Many people left Sailfish after the tablet disaster. It is not wise and also not kind now sending people away just because they are not specialised in tech.
The hybrid structure of Jolla/Sailfish complicates the development of the OS and I think CEO’s of Jolla did not always make good decisions. Hereby I want to thank the many devs in ‘the community’ who voluntarily gave their time to make it more attractive by creating apps.
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