Count me in. If there has ever been a FOSS fanatic, it's me. Still, I need things to work. I can (and will) format cards as ext4 or whatever if I feel it's safe for the way I use them. However, if I get my hands on standards compliant SDXC cards that contain data, I need my Jolla to read them. Period.

I'm 100% sure the decision to withdraw the stretch goal, take the money and run has nothing to do with „doing what many of its customers want“. It were only a few people who kept the topic alive here and on TJC. Compare those few with the number of people who paid for the tablet. No, that can't be the reason.

My assumption is that they just re-calculated the business case and found the license fees for exFAT were too expensive. Now because its unpopular to announce features will be eliminated, they needed a story and remembered the old and long forgotten shitstorm about exFAT. Now they're not crippling the device by reducing features, they're making it even better by listening to the community. How cool is that?