We talked about this at the FOSDEM community roundtable. While no specific solution was chosen, several alternatives and points of consideration came up.
I posted the stuff to together so we can continue the discussion online: https://together.jolla.com/question/27052/roundtable-discussion-jolla-harbour-apis/ Cheers, Timur On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Putze Sven <sailfish...@hardcodes.de> wrote: > Hi there, > > during Fosdem I spoke to some people about this, even to Carsten Munk from > Jolla itself (not in the depth and detail of this mail, I must admit) and > he suggested to write this in the mailing list, so those of Jolla who > should be concerned have a chance to answer this question and I really > would like to hear some official statements here. > > Let's just assume the business model of Jolla is selling phones and/or > operating systems (that is not meant as a joke neither as rant, I simply > don't know their business model and they don't need to tell me, to make > that clear - referring to > http://stezz.blogspot.de/2013/10/jolla-community-and-innovation.htmlhere). > But for the sake of convenience I further presume they want to sell > phones. Doesn't seem too absurd to me. > > Jolla must sell phones to pay their bills in the end. More sales = easier > life (I am simplifying here). > > What brings more sales? > A phone that is somehow attractive to the user. So far Jolla lived from > the geek factor and there is nothing wrong about that but geeks alone are > IMHO not enough to pay future bills. > > What may be attractive to Mr. and Mrs. Average? > A phone that has a somehow *sexy* image? Maybe. > A phone that comes together with an attractive eco system (and I chose the > words eco system here with thought)? > Yes! > What makes an eco system attractive? > Many quality *native* apps. *Native* is the keyword here, because many > and sometimes quality apps can be found on any other platform ou there. > Only *native* apps come with the user interface that distinguish a Jolla > phone from other phones (from the user perspective). > > What does a developer need to write quality apps? > An API and a documentation of such. > > So far there is a quite limited API available and therefore we don't see > too many apps out there. How will you write a sophisticated app, if the API > is not available or it is not allowed to use or is only known to those with > Maemo/Meego history? > > Maybe there are not so many developers interested in SailfishOS? > Fosdem clearly showed a lot of interest! > > What will draw the attention of a developer to this eco system if not a > way to make money and/or easy development? > Making money out of the harbour store is not possible (yet), so it could > only be the latter (ignoring the geek factor here). > > So please, please, give us APIs and documentation. Does the API change? So > what? Life is change and a changing API is a zillion times better to have > than none at all. > > Yes, there is some level of frustration in these words here, but I hope > they don't come across as a rant. They are meant as constructive criticism > and maybe as a a broad hint 8) > > BR. > Sven > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >
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