Aurora 5.1 with new devices coming May 27th
https://vk.com/video-211011274_456239276?list=4d50008211947984a3
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Animations and speed are crazy. Feels like an actual modern device.
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Too bad we cannot buy it in the west. Probably is much better than Sailfish.
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Soon will appear the fanboys to tell us how Rostelecom has huge resources and Jolla is just a tiny company. They will always accept any crap and never admit that others are simply better!
There are a lot of things I like on Sailfish and Jolla and there are a lot of things I donāt like.
Itās easy to weigh advantages and disadvantages against each other. The result is always a personal thing based on what is more important for one self and what less.
So I donāt understand this ranting all the time. Decide if the disadvantages have more weight for you or not. If they predominate, then draw your consequences and choose another OS instead of ranting.
For me at the moment, there is still more light than shadow. That may change in the future, but up to that point I try to be constructive and helpful. And if it changes I will for sure simply choose the system which I find more fitting for me.
By the way, judging from a few seconds that a system is snappy or not is ridiculous, just change the animation speed of your SF-device. The phones which are offered with aurora OS until today are far worse than any Xperia 10.
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You mean all the Russian fan boys who will talk down Jolla and praise a device (that they probably never tested in real life) regardless of how much blood pours out of the charge port? 
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What was the topic here? Just asking.
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You live up to your last name mister Sane 
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and how much blood pours from your J devices after all Rostelecom money put in it?
PS donāt you know, now the ācurrent thingā is Israel v. Gaza.
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What I find ridiculous is that at this day and age sailfish has 0 opening and minimizing app animations and it takes a long time to open the most basic apps like letās say a calculator.
Literally waiting looking a square loading so that after a few seconds it will just appear on the screen. How ridiculous is that in 2024 and specifically with the hardware we have available?
I never used Aurora in my life and I donāt plan to ever use one. But even if the above video was only 2 seconds, it would still be obvious that it is opening these apps instantly and with proper smooth animations. Sailfish doesnāt.
So please, think again what is ridiculous.
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My calculator opens quite fast:
I donāt know the transitions used in Aurora OS but maybe the shown apps were as well already open.
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Try an officially supported device.
Hereās the latest and greatest, 10 III.
Obviously the calculator was an example because itās an app that you find everywhere and it opens instantly even on dumb phones.
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I hate to say it but when looking at some of the videos, Aurora 5.x looks really good, would be really nice if sailfishOS 5.x would become more or less same
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It was already open, you can see it minimize to penultimate tile, gj on getting 9 apps in the rustore
Open or not, it looks fast, beautiful, modern and damn these animations are fluid.
If this is crap hardware as mentioned before, now thats the optimization we were talking about yesterday.
But anyway, maybe one day we see sfos too get faster with a modern redesign.
I hope mind2 and C2 sell like crazy if it helps
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Hopefully not. Looks like Android garbage
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Where did you see android though?
And what is wrong with any similarity somewhere?
Just curious because to me it really looks like exactly what it is. A more modern sfos ui (from what Iāve seen in 5 seconds ofc).
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currently problem with SailfishOS is that its little bit messy, as it has some legacy design from previous versions (which causes some inconsistency), and because there is huge lack of native apps the huge contrast between the SailfishOS and android apps makes the issue worse.
The many of SailfishOS design element are great but some are also its downfall at least if Jolla wants to gain any mainstream appeal.
how I see what Aurora 5.x has done is trying get best part of sailfishOS with some mainstream elements that exist in android and ios ā¦and personally I think they have found a good middle ground.
is it perfect? God no.
but like it or not SailfishOS is corp product, and Jolla as any other company need to make their product appealing to the mainstream to make money (at least enough to be profitable)
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Really? SFOS 1 looks more modern
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Iāve seen a lot of complains back in the day and people still saying that they despise the UI changes that happened with v3 etc.
I believe these people are the biggest reason for the state of the UI we have today.
Stuck 2 decades behind while the long dead meego still looks more modern.
Just sad 
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