Hey, the topic here is Towards European open digital ecosystems(*). The debate over Jollas audience, daily drivers, apk format benefits etc are all worthwile, but can we have them in some other threads, please?
edit (*) Specifically the European Commission’s call for input on the matter.
This just isn’t true, even approximately. There has been government institution FOSS Android apps at least since Covid. And I’m pretty sure many earlier apps are FOSS, too. And Android’s first release was 2008.
And if you move away from Android I know for a fact that much older examples exist.
Very interesting article on The Register, might be a golden opportunity for Jolla/SFOS to move to the mainstream and get serious loads of EU money.
This would open up currently unthinkable things, like actually challenging Android/iOS in the EU or getting SFOS-native apps for banking or whatever from EU companies and institutions.
Done, I wrote for Sailfish. Here are the feedback.
At the moment, 6 mentions of “Sailfish” and 42 metions of “Jolla” in a total of 250 feedback.
edit: thanks to the mods for the tidy up work.
edit: link corrected