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Originally Posted by ste-phan View Post
"I really don't get why so many within this community are so obsessive about the need for Alien Dalvik"
If you're going to quote me, please do it accurately. You missed out half of my sentence which was the part pertaining to the point I was making. I completely understand that people want to run Android apps.

Originally Posted by ste-phan View Post
-> because like me they don't know the alternatives or if they did, how to install, test, use.
Originally Posted by ste-phan View Post
-> sfdroid and Shashlik don't get too much attention on together.jolla.com
I don't see how the amount of attention on together.jolla.com is relevant when we are on talk.maemo.org here. Both sfdroid and Shashlik have been discussed and have their own threads. In the case of sfdroid, there are details on how to install, test, use.

My mention of Shashlik was somewhat hypothetical. It's still in early stages of development and won't yet run on Sailfish. I mentioned it as it shows potential in different areas to sfdroid. One of their aims is to be lightweight, the Android base will be stripped down to a minimum. Also it's not a Sailfish or Wayland only solution so it may eventually run on N900, N9, Neo900, etc.

Originally Posted by ste-phan View Post
-> because Sailfish OS is lacking basic functionality such as SIP that was once for granted by many people with past intrest in Maemo (why is something I don't really get)
What's wrong with sfdroid for this?

Originally Posted by ste-phan View Post
Different situation on Sailfish. Want to surf comfortably: Firefox, want to SIP call: csipsimple , need to Skype: install Skype apk and allow access to your contacts for it to work etc..
If having a comfortable experience is your main concern then you are better off using an Android phone than Alien Dalvik. Solutions like sfdroid have a chance to be as good as Alien Dalvik but not if they get ignored.

This community exists because of free software. Free software largely defines it. Making proprietary software a decisive device purchasing factor hurts it and leads me to wonder why you are even here in the first place. Purchase a Fairphone not because it might run Alien Dalvik should some corporate overlords decide so, purchase it because it's likely that it will run sfdroid.
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Last edited by wicket; 2016-04-22 at 08:07.
 

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