Originally Posted by mscion Why did Mark Shuttleworth need a $32 million goal for crowd sourcing an Ubuntu phone and Marc Dillion needed only a $380,000 goal to crowd source the Jolla Tablet? While this is a serious question, feel free to think of this as a joke that you can provide the punchline to! 1 Jolla tablet uses normal components. Ubuntu Edge would've used things like sapphire (or was it diamond?) glass, a quite insane CPU (for phones, that is) and 4 GB of RAM. 2 Canonical didn't have a partnership with a manufacturer, nor any other hw to manufacture. I don't know if Jolla has for the tablet, but they do have for the Jolla Phone so they might as well have established something for the tablet with them as well or else could easily establish it due to the partnership already being there. 3 Canonical doesn't have much funds anymore. All that Mark has put it from his own funds has nearly gone through it. And they don't make *that* much through other channels. Enough to stay alive but not enough to fund a cutting edge device. Meanwhile, Jolla is growing fast and also had a head start in comparison 'cause Nokia did let 'em off with some startup money. Maybe 3 isn't the most compelling reason, but 1 and 2 are.
Why did Mark Shuttleworth need a $32 million goal for crowd sourcing an Ubuntu phone and Marc Dillion needed only a $380,000 goal to crowd source the Jolla Tablet? While this is a serious question, feel free to think of this as a joke that you can provide the punchline to!