Thanks nodevel, I was about to write the same things

For the job postings, some additional infos and opinion:
- they seem to indicate that they are now about 90 (they used 80 for long time)
- it seems some of the job descriptions refer to ODM so that may indicated that the 'sailfish alliance' is getting somewhere
- the job you describe is probably done by someone else currently who is planed to work in a different direction from now on (you can imagine that with 80-90 people, some are changing positions from time to time to answer the demand in time t).

About the release time and the Finland vs other European countries, my opinion is that they will probably ship at about the same time for all the countries but Finish people will get them first because of shipping being faster.