> No one does security updates. Even googles flagship phones will only get 3 years of security updates at best. If you buy a mid-range phone you can expect a ye

> No one does security updates. Even googles flagship phones will only get 3 years of security updates at best. If you buy a mid-range phone you can expect a year if you're lucky. I agree, but I don't see how Sailfish fixes these points. For example I can't buy any phones with Sailfish pre-installed and 3 years of security updates guaranteed. The best thing to fix the update problem would be open-source drivers IMHO. And Sailfish isn't about that, it uses the same proprietary drivers as Android. > The development story is the worst I've ever encountered. Untestable God-classes that every activity has to inherit from. [...] A hideous xml based UI library that pretends it's as simple as HTML but makes things more complicated. The list goes on. I have developed an Android app and agree! It definitely is awful. But due to the large community you could achieve quite a lot, without having tested it I would assume that developing feature-rich apps for Sailfish is harder right now. > Awful convoluted build tools that require and IDE to use (they aren't documented). AFAIK Sailfish uses Qmake and QtCreator which are even worse IMHO. Regarding the documentation Android has lots of StackOverflow answers going for it. Would be interesting to know the opinion of someone who has developed an app for both systems though.