On 24 September 2014 13:41, itviewer <itvie...@jolladev.net> wrote: > As I can see ,the trend of jolla is to become a mobile phone > manufacturer,while Ubuntu touch means ecosystem.
What do you mean "become", tehy have already released and started to sell a phone almost a year ago. So they already are a phone manufacturer. Additionally they have ported their Sailfish OS to existing Android devices to attract other manufacturers to do the same for their devices. Jolla has an app store, so they have an ecosystem already. Additionally Sailfish is using QT, QML which is also used in Blackberry and Ubuntu. Even if they are not directly compatible, they still share a lot and make porting at least easier than porting from WP, Android or iOS. For which you can also use QT mind you. > Because jolla both referees and athletes, I do not think this model can be > supported by many other manufacturers. You must compare Jolla to Google, not Samsung. Even though Jolla makes phone(s) what else could have they done to make Sailfish known? They need a product to pay for Sailfish development. > As a developer, If a platform is not able to attract enough users, why > should I pay attention to it ? babysteps, if you think you can make your app successfull in play store among the 10000 already existing similar apps, well I think you are an optimist. If you develop a good app for Sailfish (and then easily port it to BB and Ubuntu) you may have 100% market share for certain kind of software already. Maybe some kind of recognition" will help to market your program on other platforms too. But the market isn't big, and paid apps means you have to handle the payment part yourself. Also, many Jolla SW developers develop for it because they like what Jolla represents compared to the other players, not to pay bills - at least for now... -- -:[ Panu ]:- _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org