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What are "top" Android apps?? What does it mean?

It sounds like only top-selling Android apps are available, because they need to be ported somehow to the Sailfish OS and that the porting takes resources that are only applied to those "top" apps...

... which is not very reassuring: if the porting effort dries up then the phone won't be able to run any app...

... which is scary for something that costs almost as much as a top-brand phone (at under EUR 100 I'd be willing to take a chance, but not at EUR 400).




I believe they say "top" because they have only two alternative app stores installed on the phone. They could not install Google play.

You should be able to install more app stores, since app stores are themselves Android apps. So you could add Amazon's app store, for example.


Google Play is also installable, but "unofficially".




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