JolKia: Two Halves Meet ?
Jolkia: The Other Half?
Inspired by one of our readers, I thought it would be quite fitting to make a tribute to a Jolla/Nokia ‘other half’ logo and discuss further the likelihood of a potential future Jolla/Nokia partnership.
We all know that at this point Nokia’s stubborn one horse race/all eggs in one basket approach is keeping the company currently focussed on a Windows Phone strategy to the point that they have now clearly made the brand their own with their striking Lumia range. This is a good thing for Nokia particularly with the likes of Samsung, HTC and Huawei biting at their heels for a piece of the WP pie but have they done enough to secure their future?
While things have been looking up a little bit with Nokia recently overtaking Blackberry in smartphone shipments, the increase in market share to 3.2% is still a far cry when facing an +90% Apple/Android dominated market. Judging by market share alone, it would seem that Nokia still have a very long way to go if they are going to start competing with the big boys.
With this in mind I pose the questions, would it be beneficial for Nokia to branch out a little and start building a plan B or is it more likely that with Elops very single minded/no plan B mentality we should rule out a possible partnership between Jolla and Nokia altogether?
As I’ve discussed previously on this blog, I feel the two companies pairing together would really make a perfect match – Jolla’s robust, slick Sailfish OS complemented by some sweet Nokia hardware would definitely have my vote without question.
I’ve also discussed before in great depth the benefits of such a partnership between the two companies, of which I feel there are many, but in reality could this kind of pairing ever feasibly happen ?
Nokia’s shareholders are getting decidedly impatient with Elop’s refusal to offer some kind of Plan B strategy, which could suggest that unless Nokias Lumia range makes significant advances in market share by Q3/Q4, Nokia may well be in the market for joining forces with a new OS.
Nokia ruled out Android a long time ago for various reasons, so potential options for them currently would be Sailfish, Ubuntu or Firefox. Tizen, BB10 and IOS are all highly unlikely for obvious reasons.
Out of the three, Sailfish would in my mind make the most obvious choice – not only would it make sense in an evolutionary way for Nokia who themselves formerly employed Jolla people directly and designed the N9 which ran the fabled MeeGo operating system, but also in terms of the fact it would work in well with both company’s Finnish identity. You can bet that all of Finland are backing Jolla, and if Nokia were to branch out and jump ship, it would restore a lot of peoples faith in the Nokia of old – that is a Finnish company drenched with national pride and supported by the entire nation and the rest of Europe.
That being said and most importantly, what do you think of the notion of a potential Jolla/Nokia partnership? :-)
On a side note, we plan to keep you posted as JollaLoveDay rapidly approaches and will be in Helsinki to cover the event – our thanks goes to Jolla for the kind invitation! :-)
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Of course that would be great for Jolla and Jolls’s users. Just take the abandoned N9 successor (Lauta), maybe update the HW a bit and put Saifish on it! For sure it will not happen for stubbornness and stupidity on Nokia side.
“You can bet that all of Finland are backing Jolla, and if Nokia were to branch out and jump ship, it would restore a lot of peoples faith in the Nokia of old – that is a Finnish company drenched with national pride and supported by the entire nation and the rest of Europe.”
That’s a huge overstatement, most of Finland doesn’t even know what Jolla is. Regarding Nokia and that national pride thing, it’s not that important either. Success in ice hockey, for example, is FAR more important to many finns(not me) than some faceless tech company.
And Nolla(zero) would roll off the tongue much better =D
That’s funny because after our recent trip to Finland, almost 90% of phones I saw Finnish people using were Nokias.
Also Nokia = good for Finnish local economy = more money to buy tickets to see ice hockey games.
And if you don’t think many Finn’s know about Jolla well let’s get out there and spread the word! ;-)
I think this would be a bad idea for Jolla users. I’ve lost faith in Nokia. In the old days they made delicate and stylish phones with quality in mind. Now they make the same crap as every smartphone manufacturer, but with a different OS. Their battery life isn’t what it used to be, they only make touchscreen high-end phones and those phones aren’t even that good. Although they hold the pureview technology, to me Nokia isn’t Nokia anymore.
Regarding the subject: who says Nokia will keep bringing quality to Jolla? Maybe they’ll do this stupid “follow the others” approach again and ruin Jolla with it. To me Jolla is the old Nokia and I want the old Nokia, so the new Nokia should back off and let Jolla make quality phones.
Apart from the quality point of view, I think it would be very rude to cooperate with Jolla people after they had been fired by Nokia. If I were working at Jolla, I wouldn’t want to have anything to do with Nokia and work at an independent company called Jolla!
Nokia should be a perfect choiche! Jolla have just worked in Nokia.
Jolla rappresent Meego failure (only for Elop’s choiche) but rappresent a new born for another OS for smartphone (windows isnt OS for smartphone, windows is only crap)
I know some people near me, that look at my N9 with good sight! N9 is very beatifull and original, the problem is OS Meego. But if you build a new HD and put it Sailfish OS and leave Nokia commerce this device should be a great goal for anyone, jolla and Nokia.
So JollKia should be a reality
Jolla is selling the OS to any ODM, so if Nokia wants it… all they have to do is walk down the street and knock on the door! In reality the Android ODM’s need Sailfish more then Nokia, with Samsung sucking all the air out of the room they need to differentiate all while being able to say “look run all your favorite old Android Apps!”. As Nokia featurephone market share collapses in Q2 and Q3 the Lumia experiment will be seen as a failure by senior management and Plan C will be adopted ( Plan B being sacking Elop).
If you recall, Elop said that there is no plan “B”. Not long after, the chairman of the board said there is a plan “B”. That either means that Elop was never told about it and when that plan “B” is executed, so is his job, or he just didn’t want to say that there was a plan “B”.
The big question, dis the board realize that MeeGo was a possibility for the future but under the control Nokia it was destined for multiple delays to really polish it? Many companies spin-off a project outside of the control of the company; Cisco does this quite often. Essentially Cisco funds it like a start-up and at the end, Cisco can “buy” it if they like what they see. There have been times that some of the employees on that “start-up” were sere still Cisco employees.
Jolla could have been a way for Nokia to let MeeGo get polished and finalized outside of Nokia. Jolla has never said who their investor(s) are. We know D.Phone is one but not who provided the seed funding. Even if it was Nokia, they wouldn’t own Sailfish but could have some input as to the direction.
For Nokia to survive, they need to look at Sailfish, Ubuntu, Firefox and Tizen along with WP. They will never get what they want out of Android; Nokia needs Android (Google), Android (Google) doesn’t need Nokia. Nokia could just design devices; which is sort of where they are now.
I have said the above since Jolla first appeared (minus the extra OS’s that weren’t known at the time.)
Is HTC and Samsung really biting for a piece of the WP pie? It is a very small pie and Samsung sells more Android devices in a week than they do WP for a year. In Q4 2012, Samsung had 29% of the smartphone market. There are roughly 1.3 million Android activations per day; which is 337,000 per day.
It would be Jolla buying Nokia within 5 years. Please forget Elokia and let’s go forward. We are Jolla, we are unlike!
That’s a great idea! But one thing I want to see is that Jolla and Nokia will make phones in Europe again. There are enough people in Europe looking for work. Nokia and Jolla can change it.
And I think when Nokia doesn’t take the change to use Sailfish they will have a hard time in the future because Sailfish [b]is[/b] the future!
Elop is a scum bag piece of trash trojan horse. I’ll never buy Nokia again until he leaves.
how about NOKIA simply acquiring Jolla?
kicking out Flop should come soon. i vaguely remember him having a 3 yr contract. i don’t see that being renewed. and once that failure gone, getting back to MeeGo / Sailfish makes perfect sense.
Windows Phone is the rope around Nokia’s neck. And Elop is the quicksand under their feet. Whilst drowning Nokia , the rope will kill it before it drowns
Being a Finn and an old Nokia fan, cant say that I could see much sence in such a move. Jolla and Nokia are playing totally different games… and frankly I would hate to see Jolla doing any collaboration with Nokia, as Jolla would loose a lot of its dexterity with it. Also, I have to question the bloggers idea right from the start… Jolla is a company with less than 100 people. They should be considered as a crazy kickstarter project than to a serious global company. The phone they release won´t be a Glaxay S 4 on dope… rather a midlevel phone with an odd UI.
yes, totally different, indeed…
NOKIA is dying, Jolla is starting a new life.
a life that could have been part, that was part of NOKIA
Ni chance of Jolla guys teaming UMP with Nokia as long as that miserable failure of Stephen Elop is still on thé payroll.
Once the Guy gets fired there might be room for discussion.
As for “the whole of Finland…” that’s 5 million people.
I do hope Nokia will ever have anything to do with Jolla, atleast until they decide to stop trying to compete with the mainstream and go back to their durabld, good quality phones.
I’m still rocking my N8 and it has taken so many hits while continuing its service faithfully, this is the type of product I’m hoping to see from Jolla (and Nokia, too).
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