Jolla Puts Out Sailfish OS "Fiskarsinjoki" In Early Access

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Jolla Puts Out Sailfish OS "Fiskarsinjoki" In Early Access

Jolla is looking to push out Sailfish OS releases faster and thus today announced "Fiskarsinjoki" in early access form...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sailfish-OS-Fiskarsinjoki-EA

[killyou]

I like the codename. It's easy to remember and pronounce by everyone in the world.

[dh04000]

This is the release that they open their UI right? Right? ......right....? Like they promised years ago?

[stiiixy]

I like the codename. It's easy to remember and pronounce by everyone in the world.

The whole point of a Finnish company using Finnish words for their own products is to, if you cant understand it, look it up. And maybe, just maybe, you might learn about a culture other than your own.

It makes people sit up and take notice, and maybe have a little fun trying to pronounce it.

And its a programmes version name, not a shelf product.

[starshipeleven]

The whole point of a Finnish company using Finnish words for their own products is to, if you cant understand it, look it up. And maybe, just maybe, you might learn about a culture other than your own.

It makes people sit up and take notice, and maybe have a little fun trying to pronounce it.

And its a programmes version name, not a shelf product.

It's a marketing fail. IKEA uses nordic names for their products but they are the only one that covers their market at their scale, so they can afford of having highly-alien names that most people outside the few in nordic countries can't use or remember and is also too lazy to look up.

I really hope that, as you said, they keep this as engineering/beta name but will use a more mass-market-friendly name.

[sverris]

It's a marketing fail. IKEA uses nordic names for their products but they are the only one that covers their market at their scale, so they can afford of having highly-alien names that most people outside the few in nordic countries can't use or remember and is also too lazy to look up.

I really hope that, as you said, they keep this as engineering/beta name but will use a more mass-market-friendly name.

Do you really believe that anyone with a Sailfish-running device would give a sh*t about a nick name?

[pmorph]

The mass-market for these products doesn't even exist. And anyway, it's just a nick name, releases have a pretty standard looking version number as well.

[ElectricPrism]

Does anyone still care?

[stqn]

What does this OS run on?

[aht0]

I like the codename. It's easy to remember and pronounce by everyone in the world.

"Fiskars River".. could have been worse. Something with a 20+ characters,of which 1/4 just happens to be ä,ö.y