Re: Jolla Tablet
 

Common sense says that they need more people to work on it to have the feature available on launch (May 2015).
Declining not to make it ever available (when they clearly think it is a major, sought after feature), because stretch goal was not met defines all kinds of logic.

Re: Jolla Tablet
 

Ah, well, the usual point of these crowdfunding projects is to help a project get off the drawing board and into reality. I'm certain Jolla has been working on a tablet for some time now, and there are certain indications that split-screen functionality has been toyed with as well. Most likely, the tablet would have eventually been turned into a reality at some point in time; and, if Jolla survived long enough, I'm sure the split-screen concept would have been implemented as well.

However, from what I've been reading, it sounds like Intel is providing a pretty sweet deal on tablet hardware right now. Apparently such a good deal that Jolla wanted to get it on it right away. And so, they've chosen crowdfunding in order to get their tablet off the drawing board faster. And, if they want to get the split-screen feature done in time for the tablet launch, that'll take even more cash...

In any case, I don't think any of these stretch goals are things that won't exist at some point in the future. The crowdfunding campaign simply accelerates their creation.

Re: Jolla Tablet
 

8AM EST. $1,498,542 What! I expected more by now!

Re: Jolla Tablet
 

Eh. Less-than-exciting stretch goals.

Re: Jolla Tablet
 

$1,499,196! Getting closer! I should have slept in a little longer!

EDIT:$1,499,294
EDIT:$1,499,343
EDIT:$1,499,572
EDIT:$1,500,335 Yippee!

EDIT: $1,750,000 seems so far way. How about asking Steve Balmer to make a contribution. If he can afford to buy the LA Clippers he can afford to help Jolla! Would Jolla take his money?

Re: Jolla Tablet
 

Or Shuttleworth since Ubuntu doesn't have hardware released yet ;)

Re: Jolla Tablet
 

Even if they would consider it, the vox populi would be:
better die than accept that blood money
Wonder if someone from google did that what would be the consensus, for me they are even worse (and i would still vote to accept it, better alive with less pride, than proudly dead), but for some MS is still the satan.

edit: as this topic is very close to evoke a lot of MS/G hate/love that will go totally OT, here is a poll:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=94267

Re: Jolla Tablet
 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all Open Source idiots for donating $300000 of you hard earned money to M$ fund!

-Steve Ballmer
Edit: Stephen Elop, Satya Nadella & Bill Gates also asked to convey their gratitude for your generous donation. We will consider as your appreciation for our burning platform, Nokia, project!!.

Re: Jolla Tablet
 

Come on man, second sentence of the article you linked says that PCs, phones (and presumably tablets, as this is from 2009) pay volume-based license fees. Not the $300,000 flat rate.

Re: Jolla Tablet
 

Look at this troll-baiting skimmer trying to flame. At least have a basic understanding of the material you reference before you call others idiots.