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Jolla's Sailfish OS Now Certified as Russian Government's First 'Android Alternative' (techcrunch.com)
The future for one of the few remaining alternative mobile OS platforms, Jolla's Sailfish OS, looks to be taking clearer shape. Today the Finnish company which develops and maintains the core code, with the aim of licensing it to others, announced Sailfish has achieved domestic certification in Russia for government and corporate use. TechCrunch adds:In recent years the Russian government has made moves to encourage the development of alternatives to the duopoly of US-dominated smartphone platforms, Android and Apple's iOS -- flagging Sailfish as one possibility, along with Tizen. Although Sailfish looks to have won out as the preferred Android alternative for Russia at this point. The government has said it wants to radically reduce its reliance on foreign mobile OSes -- to 50 per cent by 2025 vs the 95 per cent of the market garnered by Android and iOS in 2015. Sailfish's local certification in Russia also follows an announcement earlier this year that a new Russian company, Open Mobile Platform (OMP), had licensed the OS with the intention of developing a custom version of the platform for use in the domestic market. So, in other words, a Russian, strategic 'Android alternative' is currently being built on Sailfish.
Android is shit. Complete and total garbage. You're either stuck with insecure software with it or stuck with Google spyware.
iOS is at least secure but you're stuck in a walled fucking garden with Apple spying on you instead.
Just give me something with the apps I want, without the spying and with security updates, please for the love of God.
If adoption of the OS comes even close to 50% in Russia, wouldn't that mean that it would be a viable (as in lots of apps) OS for the rest of the world? I like the idea of a 3rd real contender in the market.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
"...Sailfish has achieved domestic certification in Russia for government and corporate use."
One can only imagine what this would entail with regards to State-sponsored backdoors.
(Not that the US has much room to talk...)
Hopefully with this certification Jolla will have no more excuses to delay repayment of the suckers that backed it's tablet kickstarter.
Russia wants to get away from foreign mobile operating systems but Sailfish is maintained by a Finnish company. If I were Finland, I'd be a little worried right now!
The whole "Global Village" kumbaya movement is starting to fall apart. Seems that foreign countries / nations / people are realizing that as more people decide to migrate around it's not that good of an idea due to religion and or cultural differences?
I watched an interesting vblog about a person who moved to China 15 years ago, got married and bought property (a home) and now the Chinese people around him who once were very accepting see him as a dirty foreigner who is there to take away their future from them.
Back in the day, when i travelled regularly to Russia, I would take a handful of blackberrys activated with western SIMS and secure emails; sold them as a nice sideline. Not to organised crime, but to middle-class friends who were active in pro-democracy groups or were just concerned about their privacy. Was "tribal knowledge" (I thought it paranoid at the time, but turns out was true, there but also in Saudi and India) that BB - who had built their reputation on security - had sold out to the Govt. Foreign devices were reputed still secure.
So, avoid anything "Govt. approved" like the plague: these days I hear the privacy tool of choice is a rooted android device with cyanogen, secure messenger and (still) a foreign sim. Expensive, but hey, what price freedom?
Or a credited reason for Russia to invade Finland if you ask me....
Would be nice if they had a device available in the US that ran it, but they have personal vendettas to settle.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Why not support replicant?
In other news, Russia is getting behind BeOS, BB 10, Irix, WebOS and OS/2, big time! Russian media predict a Huuugggggeeee success!
Maybe I'll finally get my Jolla tablet I paid $275 for, and then found out I wasn't going to get.
And then found out I was getting a refund.
And then found I was getting a 50% refund.
And then got no refund.
it has been here all along, as NetBSD with DirectFB. I am sadenned how all Linux distributions have slowly been isolating X11 out of the networked desktop experience at a crucial time as providing remote administrative assistance to all these embedded platforms.
You can run Sailfish OS on many different phones and tablets. If you do a little tweaking ...
Mobile devices supporting installation of Sailfish OS
The idiots are incapable to understand the basics of how innovations related to the laws of big numbers.
There is zero chances to compete with platforms tens of millions of developers strong. They will grow and adapt to changes much quicker.
The ReactOS vs Windows platform is a canonical example. React still doesn't have any DirectX after 10 years or so.
The shit will never fly.
But gopniks do not want to build anything. They want the salary for cosplay of professionalism and competence.
At least, to those that wanted.
I for one abandoned the repayment to help them.
Herve S.
and the browser is locked down garbage. I have it on my new Samsung TV and am seriously considering buying another Roku to use instead (because while that's also locked down at least it works reliably).
From the Jolla forums, and also the discussions on the Fairphone forums (as the Fairphone 2 does support Jolla Sailfish OS as an alternative to Android), I understand that the machine that allowed android apks to run inside Jolla in their earlier phone hardware is not any more present in the current v2 of the OS. :-)
Now, maybe they managed to convince the former (independent) developers of the said machine to join again, or maybe this happened very recently.
Or this announcement will motivate them
An entrypoit for checking : http://reviewjolla.blogspot.fr...
Herve S.