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Originally Posted by Larswad View Post
... So, even if the reasons to that might be explainable, like reasons of development limitations and architecture limitations and what not, it still gives a feeling of being completely fenced off from things that a regular android phone would handle. And without paid apps support, its kind of far fetched to expect any larger companies to jump on the native train.

"Sorry honey, it's a Jolla you remember? That thing you'd want is a no go, but don't cry baby, you can get another color of your other half!"
"??? uhm, yay!"

The question is, what customers is it REALLY aiming for? It's half assed in any customer profile.
Ok, I'm totally confused here. You're annoyed that you're fenced off from the things that a regular android phone would handle. You aren't getting the paid apps that you would find on an android phone. You're pointing out that Jolla, unlike Android, is "half assed" for any customer profile.

If I add all this together, I've gotta say, it sounds like what you really want is an Android phone. Google has invested billions (yes, billions) of dollars into this platform, so their OS is naturally feature-filled and well supported. Despite being based on Linux, they have built up a closed-source environment that is very friendly to software entrepreneurs, so quality paid apps abound. And by having their OS supported by multiple high-end manufacturers competing with one another, the hardware is insanely cheap.

Jolla is not, and will never be able to better (or probably even match) Google on these points. Even if Jolla was a 100x bigger corporation than it is now, it would not be able to beat Google on these points. (Heck, Nokia itself died trying to compete with Google on these points. Even after it gave up its own efforts and went with Microsoft's offering, it still couldn't beat Google on these points.)

In short: don't buy a Jolla device (or any other non-Android phone) if all you want is to use an Android device that isn't licensed by Google. You're never going to be satisfied.
 

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