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nodevel	2015-09-30 , 18:59
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Originally Posted by pichlo

Let me turn that question around though. Why do you need a Jolla tablet when you end up having to install Android apps for pretty much everything? What is the benefit of buying a Jolla tablet with 100 Android apps as opposed to an Android tablet with ONE extra app (the terminal)?

Yeah, that sounds about it.

For the system UI.

Last time I tried it, Android was very painful to use on a tablet. Just boring, getting in your way and such. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if there were no alternatives, but webOS 3.0 and iOS were/are both a joy to use on a tablet with their gestures and overall user experience, so Android seemed very out of place with its user unfriendliness (mind that I am talking just about tablet UI, not phone UI).

I don't use Android apps that much on the Jolla phone (even though I expect Kodi to be one of the apps I'll use on the tablet the most and there's no port yet, so the Android one will have to do), but even if all the apps I use were Android ones, I would still greatly prefer webOS/iOS/Sailfish 2.0 user interface and it would definitely be a reason to buy a tablet that provides me with that possibility.

That's what I sometimes don't get when people say "I only use Android apps, so there's no reason to choose Jolla over any other Android phone". Seriously, on the phone, the UI (Sailfish 1.x) makes a huge difference, no matter what apps you use (even though you gain more by having native apps with the 'swipe to go back' and other features).