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Originally Posted by qwazix

It's not about purity. It's about quality and the fact that on the N9xx almost whatever you download is at least acceptable. BB10 is the realization of acl fear. Half of the apps on blackberry world are so bad ports that they are actually unusable and have to be uninstalled (possibly after they collect a bunch of your info). By unusable I mean literally, like controls outside of the screen, too small text etc.

I have had a completely different experience on BB10, though everyone here certainly wants Sailfish's Android approach to be as good as possible. But to be fair, as of March 2013, BB World had 80% native apps and 20% that were Android Ports; and of the Android ports, I've never downloaded a single one with the problems you describe. Sideloaded Android apps I use on the Z10, like Netflix and Instagram, definitely work and definitely add value. Ported apps downloaded directly from BB World also worked well for me, though slight slow performance was sometimes observed with all ports.

I'm not sure of Sailfish's Android approach, but I think BB10 gives me confidence that the job can be done reasonably well--and 4.x compatibility being on the way this year for BB10 makes me think the same could be true for Sailfish.

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