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I have two Nokia N9's (running Meego) at home still. I used N9 as my daily driver until about 3 years ago. The failure of that magnificent OS, combined with the failure of the successor (Jolla / Sailfish) still annoys me.

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I would still use my N9 except that there are apps that I use every day that simply don't exist for Meego.

I suppose I should try to sell it to some one who can use it but it is such a beautiful thing that I am loath to get rid of it even though I haven't even switched it on for ages.

At some point it just got too slow, and the browser was just not up to scratch. Still the best looking phone ever made..

> browser was just not up to scratch

I found a version of Firefox that worked very well. Haven't tried it for a year or so though.

> Still the best looking phone ever made..

Definitely!

Sailfish is still around and is still getting upgrades every quarter with new features and improvements. Android support is actually pretty good and I use it for my daily driver.

It's not a success but it hasn't been a failure IMO.

I still have both N9 and Jolla. I really loved my N9 and was excited about Sailfish, but as soon as I got my Jolla it was clear to me that it'll be a dead end. I did use it for a couple of weeks, but it absolutely missed the mark on why N9 was so loved.

I understand that you can't just straight up copy the functional and beautiful UI from N9, but Sailfish the Sailfish UI was just way too experimental and bare.

I used an Xperia X with Sailfish until end of 2019 but then I finally dropped it - it mostly worked but got too much annoyed by small bugs that never got fixed 100% (but in the meanwhile the UI got a lot of changes => that would definitely not be my way of prioritizing work). It's a pity but personally I think Sailfish will die.

I'm still bitter about their Indiegogo campaign. I did get half a refund, so that's better than most failed crowdsourced projects.

The killing of the n9 is the one thing in tech I'm pretty sure I'm never going to get over. It was awesome, and they killed it.

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