No Apps => Noone buys it

Tizen runs Android apps by ACL; as I heard.

For the reception: Everyone has (or should have) his own primary MX SMTP server (or at least small groups of people have their own primary MX SMTP server) so no single point of failure (no single IP adress) can break significant number of people.

Initial SMTP server IP address can be localhost, what's the problem?

"leaving users in China with no way of sending or receiving emails" - SMTP has been designed so that it has no single point of failure. Why one poor webmail service failure can affect SMTP users in China (stated in general)? That's their problem if they made themselves dependent on some 3rd party service they have no control of and it is good they finally see it.

Providing all my WiFi hotspots unencrypted free for all around and I find my network perfectly secure. Security is ssh+openvpn one can use on top of it.

OK, you are right. I meant more the flip-out QWERTY. I have tried the Blackberry keyboard but it is too small and it also does not have enough keys - primarily arrow keys. It is IMO more for SMSes, not for editor/shell. So maybe the QWERTY is covered by Blackberry for QWERTY users market as I see.

> Differentiation is difficult in the smartphone market these days.

> all are nice upgrades but are only iterative

Please give us one huge upgrade - simple QWERTY. Last QWERTY phone is N900 from 2009. The next will be Jolla+TOHKBD in 2015 just thanks to a community funding effort (but still with weak hardware from 2013). Everybody in forums wants QWERTY but no single manufacturer makes one.

Interesting both QWERTY phones also run Linux OS (that is not Android) despite both features are technically completely unrelated. And there are very few non-QWERTY Linux OS phones.

Maybe there is some need for extension (although I have never found it) but in that case - systemd is still too buggy to be deployed in a real OS. After any upgrade/update I am dealing with daemons refusing to start, system upgrade takes _whole_night_ because systemd crashed on an assert - on each host upgraded etc. etc.
It is similar to pulseaudio, since that time I had to learn all the options of audio software how to deal with silent audio which always worked before pulseaudio deployment.

upstart is event based, it has replaced sysvinit in RHEL-6 and RHEL-6 still worked, I have noticed it has replaced init only after some time using it. systemd's scope is needlessly large for the even based parallelization, systemd replaces everything what worked and nobody complained before.

Linux worked better - or rather it really worked - before systemd. Why to develop anything? Just keep the old proven and _working_ daemons.

You can order Jolla from its website, there are usually some EUR100 discount coupons around. For TOHKBD you can contact its author. Unfortunately given the low-end hardware it has it is all a bit pricy compared to Android phones from Asia.

For N900 replacement look for Jolla+TOHKBD.

Because N900 is the only phone out there running Linux OS - not just the Linux kernel like Android but the full userland (mostly GNU), incl. bash, glibc etc.

Programmer, SSD for 3 years on Linux, 27TB written (160GB SSD).

Just switch the automatic transmission to manual mode - using +1/-1 stick pushes. I haven't seen that in U.S. cheap cars but all EU automatic transmissions have also manual mode.