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Re: Sw ecosystem of Sailfish, its health -or lack thereof

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Originally Posted by bluefoot (Post 1468842)

I think it's got to the stage now that Jolla are so late with everything, and so many developers have been alienated, that a new focus on the software ecosystem (monetisation, less strictures on Jolla Store apps, dev outreach etc) would actually be counterproductive. The number of people that you'd bring back, or the amount of fresh blood that would appear, would be so miniscule as to make it a complete waste of time.

They'd be better off concentrating on fixing up the OS, adding basic features, making the core apps fit for purpose, removing bugs and making it a hell of a lot faster, given how slow it is relative to the alternatives. Then maybe, just maybe, the "Sailfish Alliance" will actually mean something, with some OEMs considering it a viable alt.OS ... rather than Autumn '12 > MWC '14 > MWC '15 > MWC '16 > MWC '17 > MWC '18 "Jolla would like to announce that Sailfish is ready for licensing."

Without backers it's never going to go anywhere anyway, and the basic state of the OS will influence potential backers much more than the total lack of software ecosystem.

Today mobile OS mostly is mobile platform(ecosystem). No apps/developers and they'll have no one interested.

Re: Sw ecosystem of Sailfish, its health -or lack thereof

That's not what OEMs are interested in. That's what users are interested in. There will never be any users if there are never any devices. If OEMs aren't prepared to use it as an altOS there won't be any devices. In 3 years this has singularly failed to happen, save for the Intel slush funds.

"OMG no app ecosystem" isn't what phone companies and mobile networks are thinking when they test it and realise that the core apps are beyond basic, connectivity's pretty bad, basic features are still missing and it's slow as hell. They'd all demand Alien Dalvik, which most prospective users would utilise anyway.

Re: Sw ecosystem of Sailfish, its health -or lack thereof

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Originally Posted by bluefoot (Post 1468880)

Companies need to sell => to sell they need customers => to have customers they need to have apps.

Let's say Bob has garden of apples and he profits from it, but Alice gives him seed of peach and asks to grow. It means Bob has to abound half of man power and to start over and loose part of the profit of apples, why would he do that? On other side if Alice would tell she has garden already and all he needs to sell those peaches in his stores, he would not mind :)

P.S. No reason i have chosen apples for analogue btw

Re: Sw ecosystem of Sailfish, its health -or lack thereof

Until the OS is in a serviceable state they don't have a product to sell, hence why they haven't had any sales. It's only very recently reached a state where it's probably feasible for licensees / partners, let alone desirable.