Comments on: Licensing Jolla Sailfish OS: Potential Partners

By: SWAPNIL DHADIWAL (@swapnil05in)

SWAPNIL DHADIWAL (@swapnil05in) — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:15:16 +0000

IF possible please do launch your products in India & China (ChINdia territory) this will be a mass market that will get a quick market share of around 2-3 % in the 1st year itself

By: Vladimir K

Vladimir K — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:06:44 +0000

Nokia won’t be a partner as they’re devoted to Microsoft… we’re not even sure they will still exist in the mid term.

ZTE, Huawei, Lenovo… that makes sense.

By: xxx

xxx — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:11:29 +0000

There is no power in the world that would prevent os fragmentation when it succeed. All systems are fragmented. The old hardware is not able to execute modern version of software. New software is not supporting old hardware. Some companies try to sell fairy tales that their systems is not fragmented (apple, ms).

By: Stefano Leva (@sgamao)

Stefano Leva (@sgamao) — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:16:36 +0000

Non é che voglia la marca degli orologi in quanto tale.. ma sarebbe un brand famosissimo in grado di attirare migliaia di curiosi proprio in virtú del fatto che sarebbe un attore atipico del mercato.

By: Chandan Mhaishkar

Chandan Mhaishkar — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:49:51 +0000

Sony is best for Jolla os Licesning but busy in Flgship phone.May Not Lenovo will be best,Sharp will be best……..

By: jiipee

jiipee — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:46:02 +0000

I believe that HTC would be more probable than Nokia as a partner. At least as long as Elop in is charge since it would be huge psychological barrier to overcome.

I’ve never owned HTC devices and cannot say about their harware quality. If Ive understood right, just like Nokia HTC does not manufacture components by themselves. Lumia 800 showed that with proper industrial design also a ODM such as Compal can reach good quality. Those felt almost as good as the N9s coming from Salo. It is completely another matter how much can Jolla really influence physical design.
– Their resources are limited. Although there can be people from Nokia design for instance.
– They have limited time to use. If the UI and OS is more or less ready, they cannot wait end 2013
– Their finances and volumes are limited, which IMO does not allow too much choise in design since adjusting manufacturing facilities, suppliers consulting type of design and quality&durability testing cost for completely new materials and form factors are not cheap.

By: Priscilla Wong

Priscilla Wong — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:05:43 +0000

Oops. I meant Sailfish. I didn’t realize I was saying Sailboat the entire time. My bad.

By: Priscilla Wong

Priscilla Wong — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:25:29 +0000

No offence taken. I was just voicing out my preference to have a HTC x Sailboat combination above all else. And I still do.

I respect your opinion and preference to Nokia but having many years of experience does not make the them the best in the industry.

Better yet, it would be make everyone happy if Sailboat is licensed to more than one manufacturer…which I think will happen.

By: J-B

J-B — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:51:43 +0000

After all this talk to license Sailfish OS to several OEM’s it makes me wonder. How are you planning to prevent fragmentation similar to what has happened to android? The whole android ecosystem is a huge mess nowadays.

By: jiipee

jiipee — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:02:45 +0000

The biggest potential may not be OEMs directly, but eg Chinese social network companies and search engines (Baidu et al). They have the same incentive as Facebook to intorduce own device, could speed up delivery with Sailfish and are more or less competitors to Google and MS. If Jolla can eg. integrate their services into the device efficiently, there is big potential.