It's an Indian partner! Brilliant news. http://m.gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/intex-to-unveil-first-smartphone-with-sailfish-os-20-at-mwc-shanghai-715542 On Jul 11, 2015 7:03 AM, "Bob Summerwill" <b...@summerwill.net> wrote:
> 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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