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#1381
Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
That's like telling to Android users that they can install things from other sources than Google Play. Sure they can, but
a) Why should they have to bother? And...
b) If Jolla wanted them to use OpenRepos, then they should tell them about it. As far as I know, OpenRepos are not supported by Jolla and should not be part of an official review in the same way that alternative Android sources should not be a part of a review of an Android device.



Now you are really straying into the land of fiction. Include that in a review and you have lost all but about 4 potential customers.



Good. So you are not entirely detached from reality



I tried that. OpenRepos did not come up anywhere in the first 4 or 5 pages. (Interestingly, what did come up were links to ports to Sony and OnePlus devices. I did not know that, TMO only discusses the Nexus port.)

I then tried a search for "Sailfish apps". Again, nothing about OpenRepos. There were two links somewhere on the second page of results mentioning "unofficial third party open source apps". One was a wishlist and the other a GitHub link. None of that really helpful. And that assuming the word "unofficial" did not scare you off and you actually bothered to look.



Exactly. If a company supplying a product for a review cannot be bothered to provide the reviewer with a full set of details, including additional sources of apps, then the company gets what it deserves from that review.

Edit:
BTW, neither Jolla nor Sailfis OS Wikipedia articles mention OpenRepos either.
Search results are a gateway into the ecosystem. That's what the reviews need to look at - it's a new OS.

Anyway, I know, I admit it, I was wrong to expect a review to mention Openrepos, or much useful, really. I don't normally bother with professional reviews (or specialist magazines or websites). The vast majority of them are worthless (partly for the reasons you give). I only clicked through on these as I curious about what device they had been given. I'll go back to ignoring them, again. Life's too short to read them or get into pointless discussions about them.