Thread: Jolla arrives to India
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gerbick
2014-09-27 , 00:06
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Originally Posted by vistaus View Post
Well, BB just got 200.000 American pre-orders. That's a lot for BB. So yes, there is a market for something new and different.
I'm happy for BB, actually. I owned a Z10 and almost stayed with it until I had other issues.

Tinkerers is a wrong statement.
It's not a phone I'd give my mother.

I'm not a tinkerer in any technical kind of way and I don't know the inner workings of a computer all that well (I know a bit of Linux because I use it since 2008, but I'm still kind of a noob after all these years lol). But still I manage to use the Jolla phone on a daily basis. So no, you don't need be tech-savvy to use the Jolla phone.
The fact that you've used Linux for at least 6 years shows me that you're at least savvy enough to have ventured outside of the Windows and OS X ecosystems. I know people that's never done that. It's at least a level of savviness that people that's yet to do that have yet to accomplish.

n00b or not, you're still ahead of most of corporate America.

Also: don't put things out of context. The "retooling isn't necessary" statement wasn't about the current Jolla phone but about the Jolla phone 2 which I mentioned in the sentence thereafter.
I separated it because you had two possible meanings.

(1) Jolla 1 won't work in the US; it requires retooling.

(2) Their current focus would require retooling and thus the newer, hypothesized "Jolla 2" phone would have to be targeted to work here in the US.

If you meant 1, then my statement stands. If you meant 2, my statement still stands. Jolla will have to enter this market for their phones to work here. I've been dismantling why they ever should enter the North American market in all of my statements above.

Make no mistake about it. I suffer due to why they're not here in the US. But I actually do understand why they're not here. And for very real reasons - this market is not the easiest to enter, nor the best place. The emerging markets like China, India, Africa, Russia, et al are better suited for growth than the stagnant market in the US. My statements stand.

Marc Dillon's statements stand as well. And I agree with him. It's either Samsung or Apple here for the majority of consumers here.