What is the support lifetime for the included Myriad Alien Dalvik?
I would like to know how the support contract with Myriad for Alien Dalvik on the Jolla phone looks like. How long are we guaranteed to get updates / security fixes? Will newer Android releases be made available for the Jolla phone?
Of course, the goal should be to get as many great apps runing natively on Sailfish OS as possible but in reality, I expect Android to be dominant for a long time and many great apps will probably first or only be released for Android (or iOS).
In fact, I like being able to use many popular Android apps on the Jolla and I fear that that might end maybe in one or two years when Alien Dalvik is not getting a more recent Android release and the app developers "move on" and do not support the earlier releases anymore.
EDIT: Since it is clear that ART will replace Dalvik, what effect will this have to Sailfish?
keep in mind that any phone is not ment to last longer than 2 years, manufacturers try to release a new flagship every year and release new phones of the same category every 3 month... so you are asking them to make phones cheap, last 6 years and even support the old systems for that time-frame, not to mention 3 weeks of stby and sota hardware so you are really sure to be able to actually run new apps in 6 years...
chemist ( 2014-06-22 14:20:59 +0200 )edit@chemist This is exactly what I refuse to keep in mind because that is not the kind of product I want or like. Jolla should be unlike the others exactly here, because that means something to people. I don't want to be forced to use something else because I get left behind. And really, I will upgrade when I have more needs but the need shall not be created by artificially limitting support cycles. Look at GNU/Linux: I can run the current software on quite old hardware, if I want to. It's my choice.
epsilonijk ( 2014-11-28 13:39:33 +0200 )editsure, from a user perspective this is more than desirable - I hate Samsung for their device policy (probably wont buy a Samsung product ever again, bought a $1800 TV that has gone obsolete after a year, their apps drop support after 2...)
chemist ( 2014-11-28 13:43:49 +0200 )edit@chemist: Not asking them to make phones cheap, not asking them to include Alien Dalvik for free, not even asking them to include the OS "for free" or give away x.0 OS upgrades for free. But I like the option to pay for good software support and upgrades making the purchase of durable , feature complete hardware a good investment.
vandersmash ( 2015-10-05 19:31:34 +0200 )editI agree with vandersmash, I would gladly pay for an upgrade. I already have problems with apps due to the old version of Android that is supported. It's sad that I will probably have to let my Jolla phone go into the drawer just because of this. The phone and especially the OS is great, but app support is not where it should be.
Birger ( 2015-11-05 10:10:03 +0200 )edit