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Currently I'm searching for a new smartphone. And at the moment there are 4 OSes left: Android, iOS, Windows and Blackberry.

A lot of app makers are dropping support for Windows, and Blackberry is already putting Android on devices, so there are only two real options left.

But I have been following Sailfish for some years and to me it looks very promissing. Later this month Sony will add support for (all?) Xperia devices and Russia and China are also busy developing for Sailfish OS.

So I got the feeling Sailfish could become the third option in the near future.

What do you think? Could Sailfish be worth investing in?

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dman
Very unlikely in my opinion. The economic barrier to entry to bootstrapping a mobile ecosystem appear to be so high that extremely well funded efforts have floundered, I see very little reason why Sailfish will succeed where others have failed. List of failed efforts to jumpstart mobile ecosystems are - Creative (ziilabs), Microsoft (multiple efforts), Blackberry, Nokia (Maemo and Symbian), Ubuntu (Ubuntu phone).
pasta
Maybe. But they have one pro: most Android apps also run on Sailfish.
proyb2
Do Sailfish have their own app stores like PlayStore and AppStore? QT tooling for Sailfish is a bit hard sell than Kotlin and Swift were employed.

If Swift could run on Sailfish, it's even worth to invest.