On 13/02/14 08:26, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
The other question here is will users prefer (or rather appreciate) the Jolla-screened apps in Harbour over the user-screened apps from OpenRepos.
We actually know the answer - it's not like we didn't have precedents for "techie-device with both company and community repositories" :)
The users as such will IMHO not care who screened it, but whether a) there is an app for what they want to do and b) if it works well. Since the Harbour is a subset, it means that openrepos will have more apps, and more of them will be useful, and at that Harbour offers nothing more than the alternative. There is somehow an implicit assumption waving through the thread that Jolla-curated apps are somehow automatically "quality" apps - and that's wrong. AFAIK Jolla QA doesn't include a user experience study, but is closer to "a script and a few minutes of a guy in QA going through a checklist to hopefully protect the user from potentially trashy/dangerous apps". For me the base guideline for such setups is still the N900 and Extras vs Ovi store experience - and I will even argue that IMHO the N900 was more mainstream than the early-adopter crowd of Jolla users.
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