@vistaus
And that is why the mainstream popular devices like the iphone are so cheap?
Naw ...it's about ..."what the market can bear"...
If any goods are coveted by a population....the price doesn't plummet.
The price goes up.
All the layers of the Industries all-around want to make some coin.
From the manufacturer right down to the retailer.


In general...Comments by members outside the geographic region purely running on their passion or lack of desire for a jolla and their own personal take on the sitch is really deviating.
The answer is coming from our members at ground zero...in India.
And what they are seeing and reporting back to our community is :
1- It has been poorly marketed.
(Whether this is Jollla's and/ or the marketing agencies/ distributors in India fault would be interesting to see who dropped the ball. Mind...In the end it is inevitably Jolla's decision as to the who and how their marketing campaign was to be done)
2- India's consumer base don't want / aren't interested in the Jolla for a variety of reasons...which have been voiced by said community members in India....(walking, talking, getting feedback from friends, neighbours, family, peers, business associates...etc. does give a good "grass-roots" spectrum of the desires of a localized region.
3- This is showing in the pricing.
(and yes there is the possibility the price is being manipulated via subsidization to make it more consumer appealing ...there are alot of possibles...but in the end the truth will rest in hard-core physical numbers of retail sales to consumers. Not how many were bought in bulk by a business or company for resale...or what middleman discounted what by how much. The data on how many consumers purchased will illumine.)
I think it paramount to listen to the local voice of community members "on the ground" in their region...and not discount, ignore or argue over the info they are passing on to us.
In essence they are the "regionally embedded maemo journalists" of our community ...providing us with a microscope view of the the sitch.

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