Sailfish OS: Apps A-GO-GO
With the huge amount of interest that Jolla and the Sailfish OS is receiving, it’s natural that developers are starting to mobilise, getting ready for the forthcoming release later this year.
The maemo community have started a great thread where they are gathering feedback on which native apps you would like to see ported to Sailfish.
You can read and contribute to the thread here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=90245
Also an unofficial native app collection has already started accumulating at the GitHub site, with some big titles like the ever popular Tweetian and GPodder titles already available for download.
Not forgetting all the great Android titles that will be able to run on Sailfish’s inbuilt compatibility layer, in terms of Apps, Sailfish’s future is looking very rosy indeed!
Pre-orders are flying in and we are still awaiting confirmation on the final date the pre-order will close…
So in the meantime, head on over to http://www.jolla.com/ and if you like what you see, get in quick to avoid disappointment!
Sail On…
I’ve just read at talk.maemo.org that it is very unlikely there will be a Skype application for Jolla due to closed source components.
This would be a real deal breaker for me. I’m using skype every day. It is the main channel for communicating with my friends, since they don’t live near me. Skype is very useful when i’m on holiday. It allows me to communicate with friends and family free of charge. Without it I will be paying a lot of money to make phone calls while roaming.
I hope Jolla will be able to cooperate with microsoft, so I can buy their phone after all.
Skype use to be a nice little swedish company. Then Mircro$oft came along…
I totally agree with you, but my support for it is mainly due to the lack of anything better.
I don’t necessarily mean Skype is the best application there is, but the majority of people use Skype which forces me to use it as well. Also, a lot of voip applications don’t have chat functionally, while Skype does.
I thought skype was Estonian
Looks like you might both be right – seems Estonians, a Swede and a Dane were involved:
Skype was first released in August 2003 written by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, Danish Janus Friis, and Swedish Niklas Zennström, who had also originally developed Kazaa.[13] It developed into a platform with over 600 million users and was bought by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion.
And before M$, Ebay acquired Skype in 2005, followed by another company who bought 65% in 2009.
Here’s the Wiki for anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#eBay_acquisition
You’ll not get Skype video without Jolla working with Skype to make it so however the voice, messaging and contacts support came from open source projects on the N9 which should make it over to Sailfish.
Incidentally, there was no Skype app on the N9 either. It’s just a service plugin to the phone’s Telepathy software.
How about Skype for Android ? (Don’t forget the Alien Dalvik compatability layer)
Exactly Peter – if Blackberry could find a skype version to run on their Android compatibility layer I don’t see why Sailfish couldn’t.
Also both N900 and N9 had a Skype plugin as Shaun mentions and I know Ubuntu does too so technically I would have thought with all those links something should be possible.
i can live without the skype video call, but cannot live without voice, text chat
This is great news!
I don’t care about the video capability. As long as I can use voice and text chat I’m happy.
Although I would like to get a native application with home screen interactions, the Android app would be fine as well.
Still I wonder what this compatibility layer will mean for my privacy, since it has a link with evil all knowing Google.
@ Determinist: http://jollatides.com/2013/06/05/security-concerns-with-android-compatibility-layer-addressed/
I think at the day of release there will be more apps then devices. So for a time this will be the only one device/system on which could be launched the 1 and the unique software piece. Of course it will last for a limited time and I doubt if anybody would play this way. However, that could be quite #unlike Guiness record. Bigger number of apps then number of devices.
Well I think there ought to be another replacement for Skype eg. Miranda for Sailfish, it contains tons of plug-ins includin Skype, Jabber, ICQ, and whatany else you want. Just the better soft.
have you contacted miranda to write app for sailfish?
wheter jolla mobile kik messinger
Not too sure where to post this, however:
in a world where more and more mobile phones are used in businesses, phone exchanges and operators are going the same way as the dodo -bird with, perhaps, the unintended consequence that calling someone in company A (on their mobile) means they cannot transfer the call to another person [even within company A]. Instead one is forced to hang up and dial the other person.
I’m just wondering here, but would it possible for JollaMobile and Sailfish to include a feature which would allow transferring a call to another phone (landline or mobile, regardless)?? It would be hugely useful in business models.
I’d like to have an application that will let me contact, chat and discuss with any sailfish os user around the world anytime free of cost just like facebook. There should be a community or forum also just like here in this site or like maemo talk group. I don’t want to enter a website to talk to sailfish users. It’ll be very cool to have.