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Day 3 at MWC Barcelona, and this show has already exceeded all our expectations.

Yesterday, Minister Lulu Ranne visited our booth. A meaningful moment for a Finnish team bringing a European alternative.

The conversations here have been real. The timing feels right.

Proudly from Finland, the country of the most loved mobile phones ever made. ❤️

#Jolla #SailfishOS #MWC2026 #DigitalSovereignty #European #PrivacyFirst

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Vesa Kaihlavirta Mar 4

@jolla One of the problems upstart operating systems like Sailfish still is despite everything is that there's not enough native software.

Interesting to see if LLMs will fix that by making the creation of software so much easier. Still even with that one of the pain points is that you will need to get at least a few banks in on it, so that good software support (online banks and NFC payments) will be possible natively.

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Martin G. auf Hubzilla

@Vesa Kaihlavirta @jolla That’s for four reasons.

One, hardly anyone knows that SailfishOS exists in the first place, including mobile developers. In fact, hardly anyone knows that any mobile operating systems exist that are neither iOS nor Android.

Two, mobile devs say that it isn’t worth developing for anything that isn’t iOS or Android. If it’s neither iOS nor Android, “nobody” uses it. Don’t forget: Even developing for Android only became “worth it” when the Samsung Galaxy S, one particular Android phone model, outsold the iPhone.

Three, many mobile devs develop for a living, and they sell their proprietary, non-free, closed-source, commercial payware apps in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. In stark contrast, the Jolla Store doesn’t even support spending money on apps.

Besides, why should someone offer closed-source payware apps in an ecosystem that’s largely catered to by pure FLOSS third-party repositories, namely OpenRepos with its Storeman app as well as Sailfish Chum?

Well, and lastly, I guess there are hardly any mobile devs left who can develop for anything that isn't iOS or Android.

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