Here's the story -
http://www.slashgear.com/russia-wants-to-build-its-own-smartphone-os-19384241/
"Russia doesn't want to depend on technology from Western countries like the US. To reduce its dependence on Western tech, Russia plans to build its own smartphone operating system to replace iOS and Android from Apple and Google. Russian minister of communications Nikolai Nikiforo recently announced plans to replace Apple and Google's operating systems with a new open-source OS based on Sailfish.
Sailfish is an operating system that was developed in Finland by Jolla. Jolla reportedly met with Russian tech community members earlier this month to begin the development of the new operating system. Nikiforo says that his goal is to reduce the dependence on foreign technology over the next decade to 50%."
It's important to understand what the Sailfish OS is -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS
"Sailfish OS is a mobile operating system combining the Linux kernel, the Mer core and proprietary software written by mobile software developer Jolla."
And we're not talking about a lame outbreak of Ubuntu or a web OS or Cyanokisoft here.
"The Sailfish OS and the Sailfish software development kit(SDK) are based on the Linux kernel and Mer. Sailfish OS includes a multi-tasking graphical shell called "Lipstick" built by Jolla on top of the Wayland display server protocol. Jolla uses free and open-source graphics device drivers but theHybris library allows use of proprietary graphics device drivers for Android. Jolla's stated goal is for Sailfish to be open source eventually.
Sailfish OS can run Android applications through a proprietary compatibility layer."
The politics are going to run fast and deep on this one.
More importantly, this could well be the competition that the market needs.
Like the man said in Ghostbusters - they have the tools and they have the talent.
They also have the funding and a government edict.
http://www.androidcentral.com/jolla...-android-app-compatibility-support-intel-cpus
And that Mer layer?
That's basically the codebase, updated, that Nokia was poised to unleash when the Microsoft quisling Elop, along with a greedy board swallowing his sales pitch, buried the project and gutted the company.
So we're also not talking about some cul de sac named Tizen here.
Could this be the sleeping giant and perhaps the operating system in our future?
The app compatibility isn't a silver bullet - yet.
https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/...pps-does-Jolla-support-and-how-do-I-get-them-
But it's not nothing, especially considering that that doesn't represent the native app potential.
http://www.slashgear.com/russia-wants-to-build-its-own-smartphone-os-19384241/
"Russia doesn't want to depend on technology from Western countries like the US. To reduce its dependence on Western tech, Russia plans to build its own smartphone operating system to replace iOS and Android from Apple and Google. Russian minister of communications Nikolai Nikiforo recently announced plans to replace Apple and Google's operating systems with a new open-source OS based on Sailfish.
Sailfish is an operating system that was developed in Finland by Jolla. Jolla reportedly met with Russian tech community members earlier this month to begin the development of the new operating system. Nikiforo says that his goal is to reduce the dependence on foreign technology over the next decade to 50%."
It's important to understand what the Sailfish OS is -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS
"Sailfish OS is a mobile operating system combining the Linux kernel, the Mer core and proprietary software written by mobile software developer Jolla."
And we're not talking about a lame outbreak of Ubuntu or a web OS or Cyanokisoft here.
"The Sailfish OS and the Sailfish software development kit(SDK) are based on the Linux kernel and Mer. Sailfish OS includes a multi-tasking graphical shell called "Lipstick" built by Jolla on top of the Wayland display server protocol. Jolla uses free and open-source graphics device drivers but theHybris library allows use of proprietary graphics device drivers for Android. Jolla's stated goal is for Sailfish to be open source eventually.
Sailfish OS can run Android applications through a proprietary compatibility layer."
The politics are going to run fast and deep on this one.
More importantly, this could well be the competition that the market needs.
Like the man said in Ghostbusters - they have the tools and they have the talent.
They also have the funding and a government edict.
http://www.androidcentral.com/jolla...-android-app-compatibility-support-intel-cpus
And that Mer layer?
That's basically the codebase, updated, that Nokia was poised to unleash when the Microsoft quisling Elop, along with a greedy board swallowing his sales pitch, buried the project and gutted the company.
So we're also not talking about some cul de sac named Tizen here.
Could this be the sleeping giant and perhaps the operating system in our future?
The app compatibility isn't a silver bullet - yet.
https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/...pps-does-Jolla-support-and-how-do-I-get-them-
But it's not nothing, especially considering that that doesn't represent the native app potential.
