Thread: Sw ecosystem of Sailfish, its health -or lack thereof
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2015-04-23 , 16:39
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#25
Originally Posted by From Vertu with Love View Post
Just as Microsoft valiantly sought to prevent the fragmentation of web standards by bundling Internet Explorer with their incredibly popular OS, and not allowing OEMs to install alternatives?
That's not the same thing. For one, IE was never open source. Anybody can take Android's source and fork it, they just can't release devices with it and label it as official android (they won't get play services for it, for example).

Originally Posted by From Vertu with Love View Post
And they could, but they're not stupid - it'd be DOA. No Dalvik = no official WhatsApp. That means next to no sales in Europe, which is the primary market for any Sailfish device. Google know that they're stopping competition by preventing the release of Android-compatible competitors.
The more reason for Jolla to focus on supporting developers of native apps (hint hint: payed apps).
Last edited by herpderp; 2015-04-23 at 16:44.
 

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