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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 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.

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.

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.

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?