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Originally Posted by jalyst View Post
It's a nice romantic tune, but we live in a smartphone world that's utterly dominated by that platform...
If it's to survive, it needs to draw interest from that crowd, a GNU/Linux phone only won't cut it any more, unfortunately.
Comparing HTML5-centric platforms that aren't relying on Android is different....
Ubuntu's not HTML5-centric & isn't relying on a ACL, but it has other tricks up it's sleeve, some which Jolla can't replicate.
Actually I may be mistaken, but IIRC Tizen's using OpenACL for Android compatibility, either that or there's a big porting effort.
Who cares about "dominating Android" for got sake people should get over it. If people want Android apps get an Samsung device. Android will not work good on SailfishOS anyway. SailfishOS == SwipeOS and no buttons.

Second, I dont beleive a **** that Android support will help Jolla in any way et all.

Instead it may hurt them. Because developers will port even less apps to Silica and instead saying "hey, you can install our Android version on your device" and then the endusers wonder why on earth he bought this jolladevice when none of the apps is using the swipeUI etc...


Personally I will not install ANY android apps on my device.

Its like the beginning of 2000 when many sites said: "You must have IE if you want to enter this site". Or MSN. Did I install IE or MSN chat? No I Din't I just f***cke them and I will do the same with Instagram and similar sites if they don't have native support for sailfish.

Third if you are a person who is "with the steam" I just wonder why on earth you even bother to go for small platform like Salfish? Its not for you. Atleast not until we know if the new platform success. But if we only see Android apps the platform is doomed thats for sure...

Btw. I reply Jatalyst now. But this is a reply to all Android related posts
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Last edited by mikecomputing; 2013-05-11 at 15:36.