Thing is, in my ~10 years of porting sfos and developing apps, i’ve talked to multiple jolla employees and each one of them were super helpful and super nice people (rip sledges (he’s not dead he just left) rip James Noori the greatest sfos community manager to ever face the earth (also, he’s not actually dead) and many other awesome people that left (too many to mention).
That shows its not that developers at jolla are not willing, i’m sure they would do all the right things… if they were told to do them. And as you mentioned in upper management not a single soul cares about developers.
Which is insanely illogical and strange. Operating system is NOTHING and let me repeat that NOTHING without apps. You can do most wonderful os in the world, you got no apps, nobody is going to use it for anything else than display piece.
Now I know this will sound like massive brag but please bear with me, I had multiple independent people tell me that my apps are the only thing keeping them from leaving sfos. And jolla is like “who cares just use android”.
I’ve also seen many people using sfos as basically android app launcher (cough) and as someone who didn’t use waydroid, nor aliendalvik, nor sfdroid, nor apkenv in past 10 years (i bet you didn’t ever heard about 2 of them) i stand by my words that if you want to use android, go use android. You want to use sfos? use sfos apps. Support the developers who put their free time, MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF FREE TIME and resources into developing those apps. And please, don’t go into their group saying their apps sucks compared to that x alternative. Thank you.