[SailfishDevel] Jolla Harbour and Jolla Store

[Roberto Colistete Jr.]

Em 06-11-2013 19:26, Attila Csipa escreveu:
> On 06-Nov-13 13:05, Roberto Colistete Jr. wrote:
>> - current (2013) smartphones are fast (dual or quad core @ > 1,0 GHz,
>> fast flash memory, etc), equivalent to low cost net/notebooks some years
>> ago, so it is not a problem to have repositories with thousands of
>> packages;
>
> Luckily we all live in the world where everyone has (the equivalent 
> of) Nexus 5+ hardware and a free and steady LTE connection. Not. And 
> yes it's a problem. How bad is it? Well, for one, the updates are 
> polling-based (did you say 2013?). You're wasting hundreds of 
> megabytes of flash space for things you have no use for (effectively, 
> you cannot update once you run out of space, and as the app catalog 
> grows, your free space will be going down even if you don't touch 
> anything). You're wasting battery life (those zippy CPUs are like a 
> race-car engine, press on the pedal and watch your tank dry!). I did a 
> test with a clocked-up N900 back in the day (comparison to "big" 
> Ubuntu in a 100K app scenario), and it was pretty defeating (far more 
> than just "add a core and double the clock, and it's going to be fine").

     No need of Nexus 5 hardware. Almost all smartphones are current 
dual core and some quad core, all > 1.0 GHz each core. The CPU of the 
1st Jolla smartphone I expect to be 4-6 times the speed of Nokia N9.

     And Mer/Nemo Mobile/Sailfish don't use .deb, but .rpm packages.