That's awesome. I hope that all asian phone manufacturers like xiaomi, sony, samsung, and others get together and make an alternative to ios and android. They are big, and they can pull it of. Android apps compatibility is a big plus. Finally some movement in the market.

Yeah, Samsung, Sony, and Huawei getting together to build the os to crush android...

Japan, China, and Korea. Three countries that love eachother. /s

Korean here, people don’t like the countries itself, (we literally hate Japan), but doesn’t have much feelings to companies or usual people. (We buy Sony products, talk with Japanese people, study in Japan or work in Japan companies...etc) Similar with China. It’s something different... and I’m pretty sure if there is a reason the 3 companies (but I’m not sure if Sony has a significant mindshare in the Android market... isn’t Japan’s phone market Apple + Samsung + < 10%?̊̈) make an Android-compatible OS, they would, and we also would use it.

The more I think about it the more feasible it actually seem. Sony doesn't have a market share that's proportional to their technology at the moment but they can actually occupy the high-end lines in this new ecosystem.

They tried with LiMo/Bada/Tizen and couldn't pull it off...

That’s the likely option, but it’s also possible that they’ve come up with a reimplementation of the Android Runtime…

Considering Sailfish OS has done that, they might just have forked that instead. Indeed, I believe there are other re-implementations of the Android Runtime out there, they could just have forked.

They might already have done that:

From Sailfish homepage " Our focus is in licensing the OS to be used in governmental and corporate environments, and Sailfish OS is already used to build local mobile ecosystems in Latin America, Russia, and China. "

https://jolla.com/sailfish3/

I had this theory three or four years ago that the smartphone OS will be the next battlefield.

Sailfish uses Alien Dalvik.