Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
 

RTFM :
https://blog.jolla.com/sailfishx/

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
 

Hi,

If they are going to give you your money back (and by golly I hope they do as I'm bored hearing you talk about it) then they need an income stream.

If they sell 10,000 licenses for a year (which I think would be a remarkable success) that would be 500,000 euros. If you're trying to pay 10 engineers (e.g. for security updates, hardware adaptations and a newer version of Android) that's not a lot of money for salaries plus taxes etc... plus development hardware plus tablet refunds.

50euros seems cheap and I hope they do well enough to make it sustainable (and refund you your tablet).

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
 

500.000€ are "nothing" for a company with 50+employees. So that may be sufficient to pay 10 of them, for a year. Anyone knows where the missing 3+ Mio€ come from?

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
 

They've raised money from investors and from companies like Intex who they have created custom phones for... but that will be increasingly difficult to do - they have a vicious cycle of:
hard to get a device -> few users -> few apps -> low demand for devices.

Jolla now is a lot smaller than it was when large numbers of employees were getting on stage at Slush. From here to a profitable, stable ecosystem is obvously a big leap but I hope they can sell lots of licenses for the Xperia X. I'll certainly be buying one.

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
 

50€ is obviously calculated to vaguely pay the costs of maintaining and improving this device specific port for 12 month.
They do not want to make loss from the community device.
Thats all.

It is a nice gesture concidering they focus business on corporate and governmental solutions. Take it or leave it.

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
 

What happens to people who live in countries not listed? Will we be able to buy the Sailfish image for 50 Euros?

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
 

See post 847 and 848

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Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
 

Yes, this is also what I think.

In my understanding the "official version for Xperia X" costs 50 euros for the first year, and during that time we are getting especially tailored updated for Xperia X. After the one year subscription "a continuation program follows" which means that normal updates come like in all SFOS devices up to today.

Now, there was also an alternative explanation by an user of TJC who thinks that the "continuation program" means that Xperia X will possibly receive more special updates, and to subscribe to those would cost some xx-euros/year more.
I think that unlikely, but if it happens to be so I don't think that is a bad thing either.

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
 

Ok. So its a subscription - One year contract. Then another 50. Its good if they can transfer the funds to refund program. To be able to refund atleast 200 in September . So jolla is free to do what they want.

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
 

Nope, that has not been disclosed.

Only the fact that the first year costs 50 euros.
Whether the next years cost anything or something, that remains to be seen.