[SailfishDevel] When does Jolla give us an API?

[Attila Csipa]

On 13/02/14 08:26, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> The other question here is will users prefer (or rather appreciate) 
> the Jolla-screened apps in Harbour over the user-screened apps from 
> OpenRepos.

We actually know the answer - it's not like we didn't have precedents 
for "techie-device with both company and community repositories" :)

The users as such will IMHO not care who screened it, but whether a) 
there is an app for what they want to do and b) if it works well. Since 
the Harbour is a subset, it means that openrepos will have more apps, 
and more of them will be useful, and at that Harbour offers nothing more 
than the alternative. There is somehow an implicit assumption waving 
through the thread that Jolla-curated apps are somehow automatically 
"quality" apps - and that's wrong. AFAIK Jolla QA doesn't include a user 
experience study, but is closer to "a script and a few minutes of a guy 
in QA going through a checklist to hopefully protect the user from 
potentially trashy/dangerous apps". For me the base guideline for such 
setups is still the N900 and Extras vs Ovi store experience - and I will 
even argue that IMHO the N900 was more mainstream than the early-adopter 
crowd of Jolla users.

Best regards,
Attila Csipa