Sailfish OS Gains Two-Way Android Compatibility 130
DeviceGuru writes "Jolla announced (PDF) that its Sailfish OS is now fully compatible with Android, letting the Linux-based mobile OS run Android apps, as well as operate on hardware configured for Android. This makes the MeeGo-based Sailfish OS the first alternative mobile Linux OS to achieve the feat. Jolla also announced that a second batch of pre-orders for its Sailfish-based Jolla phones will open later this week, after having sold out its first batch in August."
no thanks (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Shame (Score:5, Insightful)
Besides, what stops you from doing like the Rest Of the World and buying your own phone?
Between the first Motorola I bought nearly 20 years ago and my present Nexus 4 I've never had one with a contract.
Re:no thanks (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:no thanks (Score:4, Insightful)
Manufacturers need to pay Google a fee for Play Store. It is just an app, which they could install, and it would work fine, showing all the apps.
It's just that the store would see the device as incompatible with every single app in the store, so you couldn't actually use it to install anything.
For Nokia it is a tiny market (Score:5, Insightful)
Now do you get some idea of why people are taking the Nokia takeover so seriously? A company that has been utterly gutted in a blatant corporate raid is still selling more phones than Apple despite people being told by the CEO of the company selling them that the platform is doomed.
Re:Shame (Score:5, Insightful)
Besides, what stops you from doing like the Rest Of the World and buying your own phone?
I've noticed that US folks tend to think that you can only get a phone from a carrier . . . and just assume that the whole world also works like it does in the US.
Re:Why, isn't that just peachy (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh, so Android now ships with GNU/busybox userland and X (or Wayland in case of Sailfish) out of the box?
Dice is a U.S. company (Score:2, Insightful)
And what is on a world scale relevant about a single market?
Slashdot is operated by Dice, a U.S. company. There will usually be a U.S. slant to stories. That and the coinventors of the telephone in the first place (Bell and Gray) were both U.S. residents.