In some ways, Tizen is more akin to Sailfish though, Samsung's contributing quite heavily towards Wayland, as is Intel.
And native dev is fairly heavy emphasis, it's just not "front & center" like Sailfish/Ubuntu...

You've no idea what you're talking about, you're funny though, funny in your "cluelessness"...
It's funny that you're so clueless that you don't even understand that the Edge was never meant to be a mass-market device, it had a fixed ceiling.
Canonical is in a very similar position to Jolla, it's hw partners absolutely cannot afford to sell phones with equal specs to top-end Android phones, at similar prices.
The whole point of a limited edition phone like the Edge....
Was to give Canonical some more bargaining power in that game, so that it's real Ubuntu phones can move closer to Android phones when it comes to the specs/$ ratio.
That's why I don't think this is the last we'll hear about the Edge (or something similar) from Canonical.
Either they'll have another run at crowdfunding (but probably not with a fixed donation model), or Mark will simply stump up the cash.
It remains to be seen whether it'll have the effect Mark hopes for, even if it doesn't another possible +ve is drawing more attention to it's normal Ubuntu phones.
And even if they don't have another run, it's been a one big advertisement for Mark, something that can't hurt when it comes to negotiating with relevant parties.