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I am bringing this up because it is something that we (we as the people that use a jolla) face. To get straight to the point the native app situation -and i mean in the official store/you don't expect your mom to start looking into openrepos- is somehow meh. We still miss apps for popular services (Instagram, Whatsapp etc) and many more stuff. Companies don't seem to be deeply interested in supporting a small platform which makes sense. Android apps don't cut it even thought are a solution to some and indie devs that could fill in the gaps companies leave are not able yet to make some money or are not much interested in the platform.

So. Is there anything that can be done -other than enabling payed apps that seems to be taking a long time and allowing more APIs- to make things better?

Suggestions as answers please. And any comment from Jolla people -i know you are busy- on this will be appreciated. :)

I am bringing this up because it is something that we (we as the people that use a jolla) face. To get straight to the point the native app situation -and i mean in the official store/you don't expect your mom to start looking into openrepos- is somehow meh. We still miss apps for popular services (Instagram, Whatsapp etc) and many more stuff. Companies don't seem to be deeply interested in supporting a small platform which makes sense. Android apps don't cut it even thought are a solution to some and indie devs that could fill in the gaps companies leave are not able yet to make some money or are not much interested in the platform.

So. Is there anything that can be done -other than enabling payed apps that seems to be taking a long time and allowing more APIs- to make things better?

Suggestions as answers please. And any comment from Jolla people -i know you are busy- on this will be appreciated. :)

I am bringing this up because it is something that we (we as the people that use a jolla) face. To get straight to the point the native app situation -and i mean in the official store/you don't expect your mom to start looking into openrepos- is somehow meh. We still miss apps for popular services (Instagram, Whatsapp etc) and many more stuff. Companies don't seem to be deeply interested in supporting a small platform which makes sense. Android apps don't cut it even thought are a solution to some and indie devs that could fill in the gaps companies leave are not able yet to make some money or are not much interested in the platform.

So. Is there anything that can be done -other than enabling payed apps that seems to be taking a long time and allowing more APIs- to make things better?

Suggestions as answers please. And any comment from Jolla people -i know you are busy- on this will be appreciated. :)

If any indie devs have something to ask/suggest please do.

I am bringing this up because it is something that we (we as the people that use a jolla) face. To get straight to the point the native app situation -and i mean in the official store/you don't expect your mom to start looking into openrepos- is somehow meh. We still miss apps for popular services (Instagram, Whatsapp etc) and many more stuff. Companies don't seem to be deeply interested in supporting a small platform which makes sense. Android apps don't cut it even thought are a solution to some and indie devs that could fill in the gaps companies leave are not able yet to make some money or are not much interested in the platform.

So. Is there anything that can be done -other than enabling payed apps that seems to be taking a long time and allowing more APIs- to make things better?

Suggestions as answers please. And any comment from Jolla people -i know you are busy- on this will be appreciated. :)

If any indie devs have something to ask/suggest please do.

Edit to add the case where apps seem to have been abandoned by the devs. Share your ideas for what can be done for these apps. Many are FOSS but there seems to be little interest in them.