Thread: Alternative history: What if Jolla never existed?
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gerbick
2015-11-23 , 19:53
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Originally Posted by JulmaHerra View Post
Cyanogen is not very good comparison to Jolla, as they build on top of Android, which is developed in many other places with considerable amount of manpower and resources. On the other hand, just by open sourcing everything doesn't mean it's going to fly. Sailfish would still face the same challenges as it does today.
Devil's advocate here... but Cyanogenmod building on top of Android is really no different than Jolla building Sailfish on top of Mer, which came from MeeGo basically. It's all about adoption rates - MeeGo didn't get adopted as much, Mer less but they built on top of an existing system. Both of them.

Cyanogen is also, as stated above, quite small too - approximate the same size as Jolla. Cyanogen also is doing something that Jolla is doing - hitting up smaller companies to make their mark (ex. OnePlus, YU, a couple of others) whereas Jolla had Intex (another smaller company).

I think the difference though would be the investors.
 

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