I guess nobody knows what to think because we just don't have enough information to make a judgement.
MWC Shanghai is 15-17 July, so Wed to Fri of the coming week. See http://www.mwcshanghai.com/ My hope would be that Jolla announce a new Chinese partner who have licensed Sailfish 2.0 to bring it to the Mainland market. If that has happened then we have something of a breakthrough. My read on Jolla having split off device development into its own company is that bringing a commercial phone to market is incredibly hard, and is quite a different problem to building on OS. Letting big existing companies take on that work and risk (and potential profit) is a very pragmatic choice. From my understanding, finding partners was the plan from the very start (see Sailfish Alliance) but it hasn't happened yet. You don't make this kind of company split for fun, so I imagine it signals that they have at least one new partner to announce. If you want to think in Android terms, the Jolla licensing company is AOSP (and a bit more), the devices company is the Nexus program, and then the licensees are Samsung, Sony, HTC, etc. Hopefully one of those Android licensee big fish (or a medium fish) has been persuaded to diversify and start a Sailfish line of phones. If so then Jolla will have achieved something which Samsung have failed to achieve. Sufficient openness to find partners who want to work with them. Sufficient value for the licensees in the OS. Gotta sort the paid store, though! On Jul 8, 2015 6:33 AM, "itviewer" <itvie...@jolladev.net> wrote: > > > http://www.jollausers.com/2015/07/press-jolla-strengthens-focus-on-sailfish-os-licensing-and-development-a-new-company-to-continue-device-business/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to > devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >
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