[SailfishDevel] Regarding SailfishOS and its SDK

[Cleber Rodrigues]

It's just amazing how you blindly believe your personal opinions are the
uttermost truth.

IMHO you got so many things wrong in your rant, but, it's just MHO :)


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Hotmail <imgen at hotmail.com> wrote:

>   I just watch 3 videos of SailfishOS in Slush 2012 on jolla.com and
> although I think it’s way too much nonsense about openness blah, blah, blah
> in the first video ----- Come on, only at the last minutes the UI is
> demoed. Don’t get me wrong, I love openness and open source, I have open
> source projects, but open is not the end goal here. Creating great UX is,
> endearing developer is, bringing in partner is. Not openness.
>
> I do think the UI is quite good, esp. the swipe gesture and also the more
> live tile (comparing to the one found in Windows Phone) which is what I was
> dreaming of. The default home screen is ugly though, it reminds me too much
> of the ugly default home screen of Android which frankly speaking, I think
> its home screen is uninspiring, plain dead boring. Come on, you have the
> dynamic live tile, think a bit deeper, just a bit. Overall, I was
> optimistic. The competing Firefox OS UI is pathetic comparing to this.
>
> But last night after playing with the SDK released (which is half a year
> later of the demo, what are you doing in the half year?), my optimism is
> gone, probably forever. BTW, I played under Windows 8.
>
> First one, QT is great, but only supports C++ for native development is a
> big no no no. Remember, you are a startup, not Apple, you just cannot be so
> arrogant and like Apple, force Objective C down on people’s throat. I had
> been a C++ dev for years, and I still loves it, C++ 11 is great. But boy,
> it’s not for average developer and its productivity will never match that
> of C#, heck, it’s even behind java, although with C++ 11, it’s quite close,
> esp. with lambda. Nowadays, C++ just is not meant for app development. You
> have to swallow and digest that. At least support C# which is open now. The
> fragmentation of mobile development is already way too painful for
> developers, don’t mess up it further more, please please please. If you
> really care developer, do support C# via Mono. Java as well if you have the
> resources. Xamarin is doing a great job endearing developers, why not give
> them a call? Don’t give me that openness nonsense. Be idealistic, but don’t
> be floating in the outer space and thought you guys are aliens so you can
> be unlike – Anyone or just me thought that there are way too much unlike in
> the Slush presentation? Both visually and orally.
>
> Secondly, relying on VirtualBox and also two virtual machines, one for the
> building and one for the emulator is just beyond me. What is going on here?
> If you are really really relying on VirtualBox – (IMO VB is not that
> great), why not package it with SDK? Its 94 MB is not very big comparing to
> the 600 MB sized SDK. Who made the dumb decision? He or she is not doing
> their job well?
>
> Thirdly, the merSDK VM started, but the QT Creator cannot detect it, it
> keeps asking me to start the damn merSDK VM. And even better, the phone
> emulator give me a blank deep dark screen, like outer space. Come on, you
> are smart people, you are serious people, do your test. Windows 8 is here
> for a year, its share among developers is way bigger than among average
> joe, and you don’t test on it? Just plain dead pathetic. If you guys tried
> to make a April’s Fool joke, it’s way too late. Or you guys are trying to
> play dead or trying to be pathetic, then you did it.
>
> I have high hopes for you guys, the N9 was great. Meego was quite good,
> too. You guys are super smart and I assume you have high ego, but don’t let
> this high ego thing and smartness blind you. Being a idealist myself and I
> have to say, you can get started on something being a idealistic, but you
> have to be realistic if you really want to succeed and reach your end goal.
> If you don’t want success, then never mind.
>
> Regards,
> Imgen
>
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