Originally posted by cybertraveler
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They can only do small side projects hardware-wise for now (the cited power chip support)
Originally posted by lucasbekker
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the current trend in smartphones is to make as much thing integrated as possible on the same SoC. Thus the modem core being in the same SoC, often with extended privileges, basically working as a north bridge (mostly for power-saving issues).
Which means that by volumes, most of the low-energy chips suitable for a smartphone are going to be the all-integrated kind. (That's one of the reason why they are stuck with a Freescale iMX8 SoC)
This means it's going to get harder over time for them to find newer platforms where they can pull their current "modem is a separate chip on a standard bus" type of privacy-conscious feature.
Without this feature, they'll be losing a big part of the interest they are generating, and simply become an "also possible alternative OS" in the same vein as UBTouch.
(At least in this game Jolla's Sailfish managed to attract more end-user attraction by breaking the "user community catch-22" by supporting some android apps).
*IF* they can generate enough interest to reach a wide audience, they might pull it, but I doubt.
For the rest, except a slick interface they aren't bringing much to the table that wasn't attempted before by countless other projects (OpenMoko, Firefox OS/Boot-to-Gecko {though KaiOS seem to be surviving}, UBTouch, Sailfish {miraculously not dead yet}, etc.)
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