Why don't Sailfish support the license transfer of the OS to a new device? [duplicate]
asked 2020-06-22 13:26:55 +0200
I have been using SFOS on an Xperia 10 Plus. The phone was performing badly under SFOS, so I decided to sell it (was fine with Android), and get a replacement.
I noticed there was no Android support on my new phone. I was confused as I am using the same Jolla account. After some research I discovered that purchasing SFOS is tied to the specific device.
Is there a specific reason for this? It has come as an unexpected expense. It's also something to consider should I need a replaced phone again (breakage, stolen, lost, etc).
Is there a specific reason for this policy?
I guess there are other ways to prevent people distributing few keys on torrents or whatnot. I would rather have one time hardware check instead of android's every other week checks (That feeling then a music player stops working and you're in the middle of a trip and you have to pay for data in roaming just to continue using a f-ing app you already f-ing payed for). Microsoft at lest do this during updates (They've been pretty laxed about activations recently though).
Nerevareeeeeeee ( 2020-06-22 21:06:59 +0200 )edit