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#266
Originally Posted by Fellfrosch View Post
I'm not sure what to do if Jolla drop Adroid support. on one side I would be sad, because there are some apps which I really don't want to miss: Offline wikipedia, Proper Offline Navigation and it gives you some flexibility. So yes, as long as the ecosystem isn't really big I would defintely miss the Android support.
I think the android support is more of a hindrance than a help tbh.

Some of the apps you mentioned (like offline wikipedia) don't seem like they would take a long time to create for sailfish, but the availability of android alternatives means there's less motivation to write one.

This leads to the "sailfish has no apps" complaint. Meanwhile, people are getting a worse experience running android apps within Sailfish (two completely different interfaces) and are constantly reminded that they could just cut out the hacky alien dalvik and use android directly. At the same time, Jolla picks up flak for all the imperfections in AD, and spends a lot of time fixing them (which also raises complaints).

I don't see the sense in relying on non-free Android support to be part of the Sailfish experience when it could stop working pretty quickly if Jolla stop developing it. Not saying I don't understand why individuals use it, but it's basically a tragedy of the commons - we'd all be better off in the end if nobody used it.
 

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