I have to disagree. The success of this project is more than evident already: It's the product in our hands.

To build something as complex as a smartphone with technology taken almost exclusively from the GNU/Linux desktop world (plus a little magic and a stroke of genius) and actually sell it on three continents, even have deals with picky carriers... And to achieve all this as a company that until not long ago had less than 100 employees... This is what I call success.

(The fact that it turned out to be such a beauty and didn't copy age-old UI concepts, but brought a new one that's years ahead of the one I have to use on my Samsung, makes the success even bigger by magnitudes.)

In other words: There are so many milestones that similar projects in the past never reached and that Jolla successfully passed (usually even in time) that I still can harldy believe what I'm holding in my hands today. (I'm coming from the days when I waited for the Neo1973 to become a consumer-ready, "free" smartphone. I've seen quite a few failures in this business.)

Number of shipments is one additional aspect, and I hope they sell at least enough so they can build a second or even third model. But after all that we've seen in this industry, saying that success only depends on shipments is just so wrong....