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2014-11-19 , 13:39
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#382
Originally Posted by mscion View Post
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!
When Canonical announced their kickstarter, they didn't even have an OS. For them to develop an entire OS with GSM capability from no base whatsoever would have required at least 100 engineers working on it. Assuming a cost of $100k per worker, that's $10M a year just to pay their wages. Jolla on the other hand didn't have that draw back. They already had the core of an OS that works great. Hardware costs are the other massive chunk of the costs. From what we saw, it sounded like Ubuntu wanted their own custom hardware. Jolla on the other hand seem to be taking an off the shelf chipset+screen and putting their own case around it. That is why it seems so similarily specced to the Nokia/Ipad.

I said at the time, that people completely underestimated the work/money needed for Canonical to develop a stable, tested and working OS.
 

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