Hmm. It is true that I do not have a physical Jolla phone. (I happen to live in the hemisphere of the planet that does not yet enjoy the presence of Jolla devices. )

But let me ask this -- why do you have a Jolla phone? For what purpose are you using it? The Jolla phone is the first piece of hardware running the first version of a novel operating system created by a young startup company -- surely you can't have expected it to pop out of the box able to do everything other phones do, and without any bugs.

I probably have different expectations of what I want out of a phone than most folks on this board do. Personally, I've given up on the concept of a "smartphone"; particularly here in the US, the whole concept has become tied up into force-feeding expensive little locked-down pieces of hardware into user's hands that get replaced by newer little boxes every 24 months (or less). The whole thing is insane.

The solution I'm going for is to completely untie my mobile computing hardware from my mobile telephony hardware. I'll go ahead and get the cheapest handset my provider is trying to foist upon me, but I'm not going to bother buying apps or loading data onto it. Rather, I'll go ahead and keep all my personal data and personal programs on a device that I can manage myself.

And, this is what I'm looking for from Jolla (and why I'm much more excited about their tablet than their phone). It's a mobile device with a decent hardware set sporting both a decent Linux base and a decent user interface. They may or may not have good apps running on it yet; if they do, I'll be happy to use them. However, I'll also be happy to run the apps I've been using for the last twenty years on my desktop machines. And, I'll be even happier if I can continue to use those ancient apps in future mobile devices.

The cellular device world being crafted by Apple and Google today is amazing for what it provides; but, it is also closed, and therefore, stagnant. Someday, Apple and Google will move on from their current operating systems (or will disappear), and when that happens, the corresponding software ecosystem will be just as dead as the Windows 9x ecosystem. Or the MS-DOS ecosystem. Or the Mac OS 9 ecosystem. The only software from the days of my youth that is still regularly maintained and used in the present day is open-source software; everything else has long since been chucked into the dustbin.

Hmm. I think I've gotten off topic here. Let me see... Yeah, I guess I do see things from the "ivory tower" point of view; or, at least the long-term view. Bugs don't bother me. Missing functionality doesn't bother me. Eventually, such things get fixed or replaced. But, all the code Apple and Google have created, all the closed-source apps running on iOS and Android -- it's all trash. In five to ten years time, it'll all be dead and gone, just like all the closed source software that was written five to ten years ago.

Sailfish is riding on top of software that mostly isn't trash. It can run apps that are not trash. So yeah, I'm stoked about getting a Sailfish machine in the near future.