Posted by heresie-dabord 2 hours ago
However, as I've got older I find large phones more and more unwieldy, and I couldn't find a small enough SailfishOS phone to switch to. I'm now running LineageOS on a Jelly Star. The form factor is perfect for me.
Would I return to SailfishOS? Absolutely. But there'd need to be a small phone in the line up for me to migrate to.
I ask, because the device is not officially supported by LineageOS, but if it works well with a different approach it would be an interesting option for me as well.
Considering you almost can't do banking, and in some places interact with the government, without a locked down phone...
I'm pretty sure that, if there are security benefits, they have been artificially tied to the use of the company's distribution method, that coincidentally really needs to be sending usage statistics, monitoring, etc. Surely there exist no conflicts of interest to be found.
Not sure about equivalent apps for other regions, but I don't see why they shouldn't work.
[1] https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/swedish-bank-id-swish/11781/3
[1] https://xdaforums.com/t/discussion-the-root-and-mod-hiding-f...
I refuse to have my browser fingerprinted as a "trusted device" because part my bank is just bad at it.
My bank closed down their old online banking site and the new one needs the phone for 2FA... but ... drumroll ...
... the idiots also want me to keep using the token device to log in before approving the log in via my phone.
Security theater.
Their UI looked novel, but wasn't that great in practice. It wasn't stable (hopefully that changed) and the lack of real apps was killing it before and now even more, as more banks/govs require some "trusted" apps
And, to my eyes, it simply looks better.
(I actually do not want to travel to the US, period. But that's a different story.)
(But whether any EU member is capable of rising to this (very shallow) challenge... well, I'm justifiably cynical.)
Europeans, I guess good luck, have fun. I followed them in the early days and ran early builds of Sailfish on the N9, had high hopes but have long given up on them.
EDIT: I will say though I'm still impressed by the libhybris project which went on to make it possible to run linux distros on android SoC's, but the guy who did that for Jolla I think is not with the company anymore for some time.
Then I could become a PC in our pocket.
The market is there , product is loved and ppeople have proved they are willing to take some pain adopting the product.But still the execution to serve that market is shambolic to say the least.