{"id":975,"date":"2015-06-30T16:09:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T05:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=975"},"modified":"2015-06-30T16:09:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T05:09:05","slug":"alternative-mobile-os-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Alternative mobile OS redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=689\">blogged about<\/a> the possibilities for alternative mobile platforms. Unfortunately the pace of development has been slow since, but the good news is products like the new Meizu Ubuntu-based device are coming to market.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-976\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meizu.com\/en\/ubuntu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-976 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/meizu_ubuntu_phone-1024x639.jpg\" alt=\"The new Meizu Ubuntu-powered smartphone\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/meizu_ubuntu_phone-1024x639.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/meizu_ubuntu_phone-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/meizu_ubuntu_phone.jpg 1143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Meizu Ubuntu-powered smartphone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since then FirefoxOS is focusing on higher-end devices, Sailfish has strong interest in a tablet and Tizen is now available on smart watches and TVs from Samsung,<\/p>\n<p>Locally, Telstra was looking at FirefoxOS, but not much happened there. The Big T is also on Canonical&#8217;s Carrier Advisory Group (CAG) for Ubuntu Phone so we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see what (if any) outcome there is.<\/p>\n<p>It must seem like an insurmountable task to break into the global smartphone market, but there are a few reasons to give it shot. First, the two dominant platforms can&#8217;t be everything to everyone; second, the refresh rate of handsets is quite high so there is a large window of opportunity; and third, with more standard apps and dev toolkits the hassle of supporting multiple platforms should diminish over time, even if you ignore the growing apk support for non-Android OSs.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed the other day in the large tech retailers&#8217; catalogues the arrival of Microsoft (not Nokia) branded smartphones in Australia. It would be great to see a few others options available as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I blogged about the possibilities for alternative mobile platforms. Unfortunately the pace of development has been slow since, but the good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[146,100,147,149,148,98,94,97],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","tag-canonical","tag-firefoxos","tag-meizu","tag-microsoft","tag-nokia","tag-sailfishos","tag-smartphone","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}