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Jolla's Sailfish OS is moving to a subscription model, new phone (and a privacy-focused AI device) coming soon - Liliputing (liliputing.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Seems a hard sell to go subscription on such a niche platform. I wish anyone luck that could challenge the Apple/Android duopoly though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I haven't looked into it. But I suspect that if Linux phones can get Kotlin to run natively, we'll start seeing some of the apps from F-Droid ported over and that will be the turning point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Kotlin isn't the problem, missing the various Android API's is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But a Linux distro can go like for like, like what Google did with Java right? So people wouldn't have to recreate apps, just tweak them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's still a lot of work, for what value compared to an OS based on AOSP?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel like, if AOSP was going to be adopted by the Linux community, it would've happened already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what "the Linux community" really means but I would bet that pure open source Android based on AOSP are more popular than the non-Android Linux mobile OS combined.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Think PinePhone and Librem Phone,

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Kotlin targets the JVM right? I think you'd need either a port of the runtime (dalvik?) Or an api translation later a la WINE.

But I don't actually know anything, so don't listen to me. Having a fully Foss phone with support for the android app ecosystem would be wonderful though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Apparently, not necessarily https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-overview.html#:~:text=Kotlin%2FNative%20supports%20the%20following,Linux